Always give a baby salt before it tastes aught else. The child will not choke, and in general it is a good thing to do.
Mansfield, O.

Always give a baby salt before it tastes aught else. The child will not choke, and in general it is a good thing to do.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 40.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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