1336. Whistling girls and sheep
Are the very worst cattle a farmer can keep.
1337. A whistling girl and a laughing sheep,
Are the very best property a man can keep.
Northern Ohio.
1338. Girls that whistle and hens that crow
Make their way wherever they go.
1339. Whistle before you eat,
Cry before you sleep.
Baldwinsville, N. Y.
BODILY AFFECTIONS.
1340. If the right cheek burns, some one is speaking well of you; if the left, they are speaking ill of you; if both, they speak well and ill at once. Moisten the finger in the mouth and touch it to the cheek, naming those whom you suspect; the one at whose name it grows cool was speaking of you.
New Brunswick.
1341. If your right ear burns, some one is talking well of you; if your left, he is talking ill.
General in the United States.