The fourteenth is a lucky day, and those taken sick on it will recover in forty-eight hours.

On the contrary, those falling ill on the fifteenth day may experience long and lingering illness, which will probably prove fatal.

Those taken on the sixteenth day, may escape, after some weeks of illness.

Persons falling ill on the seventeenth day are almost sure to die within three weeks.

The eighteenth is a lucky day and those falling sick on that day will undoubtedly recover.

The nineteenth, the same—though the sickness may last much longer.

The twentieth is an uncertain day, and sickness commencing on this day frequently terminates fatally, if it continue more than five days.

The twenty-first day perils one’s life for ten days—that time passed, you will recover.

Those falling sick on the twenty-second, will die within forty-eight hours, or after that time will certainly recover.