STRANGE BED.
Lay under your pillow a prayer-book, opened at the matrimonial service, bound round with the garters you wore that day, and a sprig of myrtle on the page that says “With this ring I thee wed,” and your dream will be ominous, and you will have your fortune as well told as if you had paid a dollar to an astrologer.
THE SIGN OF A SNEEZE.
If any one tells you anything, and you are shortly after obliged to sneeze, you may be sure that what was told you is true.
THE DEATH-TICK.
If you hear a wood-tick or death-watch ticking anywhere in the house, you must try to get rid of it as soon as possible, or you will speedily hear of a death which will greatly afflict you.
THE CRICKET.
If there is a cricket in the house, be careful on no account to disturb it. Think of Dickens’ Cricket on the Hearth.
AN OMEN OF RICHES.
When an ant-heap gathers in your house, it signifies coming wealth—you may, however, destroy the nest.