If you go in at the back (or front) door of a house, and out at the front (or back) without sitting down, you will bring company.
Guilford, Conn.

If you go in at the back (or front) door of a house, and out at the front (or back) without sitting down, you will bring company.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 753.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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