“In my school-days, if a boy crossed his fingers, elbows, and legs, though the act might not be noticed by the companion accosted, no blame was attached to the falsehood.”
New York city.
Superstition #69
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 69.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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