For hiccoughs the nurse used to say in a droning, deep, ghostly tone,—
There was an old man an’ an old woman,
And they lived in a bottle and eat Bones.
Bones
Brookline, Mass.
Superstition #847
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 847.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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