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indicates that he will get the money, but if they escape he will not.

Prince Edward Island.

716. If a group of bubbles are floating on the tea or coffee cup, take
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them up in a spoon, and swallow them unbroken, saying, Save my money.

Plymouth and Salem, Mass., and New Brunswick.

717. If when you stir your coffee at breakfast you will try to catch the

bubbles on top, you can have as many dollars as you can catch whole ones.


718. To find money and keep it insures good luck through the year.

Talladega, Ala.

719. Put the first piece of money you get in the morning into your

stocking, and you will have more to add to it before night.


720. If you find a piece of money the first day of the year, you will

have good luck all the rest of the year.


721. If paper money is folded lengthwise first, it will insure the

possession of money. If folded the short fold first, money will not

remain in the pocket.


722. To make a sale in the first place where an agent calls is good luck.

For example, a magnifying-glass worth three dollars was sold for

seventy-five cents, in order to stop a run of bad luck by making a sale.


723. If your initials spell a word, it means that you will be rich.

Massachusetts and Ohio.

724. If the right hand itches, it is a sign you will receive money; if

the left, you will spend money, because R stands for receive, and L

for let go.

New York.

725. If the left hand itches and you rub it on wood, you'll receive money

before the end of the week.

Rub it on wood

To make it good.

Very common in New Brunswick and New England.

726. Itching in the palm of the hand means that it will soon receive

money. Clap the closed hand into the pocket.

Mt. Desert, Me.

727. If you place your money according to value, i.e., lay it in order,

you will be rich.

Bedford, Mass.

728. An old superstition pertaining to clothing is, that before putting

on new clothes a sum of money must be placed in the right-hand pocket,

which will insure its always being full. If by mistake, however, it be

put in the left hand pocket, the wearer will never have a penny so long

as the clothes last.

729. There's a bag of money, or a pot of gold, at the end of the


General among children.

730. If you sew in the twilight, you will never be rich.

Miramichi, N.B.

731. If you mend or sew on a garment while wearing it, you will always be


Bathurst, N.B.

732. Always shut the doors, or you will never own a house.

Salem, Mass.

733. Sparks in the soot on the back wall above a coal fire bring wealth.

Rhode Island.

734. Say Money three times at sight of a meteor, and you'll get it, or

wish and you'll get it.

735. When you see a shooting star, say money. As many times as you are

able to repeat the word during the fall of the star, so many dollars you

will have in your pocket.