General in the United States.
1309. If you can cut a pie fair and true, you’ll have a likely husband. If you make the slices uneven, he’ll be crooked.
1310. If you make a bed handsomely, you’ll have a handsome husband.
1311. If you cut pie straight, you will go to housekeeping.
If you cut pie crooked, you will have no house to keep.
New Hampshire.
1312. If you make a rhyme involuntarily, you will have a present.
New Brunswick.
1313. The free use of salt is a sign of having a temper.
Lynn, Mass.
1314. To say anything backward is a sign you will get a present.