1399. Wear at the toe, live to see woe;
Wear at the side, live to be a bride;
Wear at the ball, live to spend all;
Wear at the heel, live to save a deal.
New York.
1400. Wear on the toe,
Spend as you go;
Wear on the ball,
Love to spend all.
Wear on the side,
You’ll be a rich bride.
1401. Of stockings:—
Wear at the toe,
Spend as you go:
Wear at the heel,
Spend a good deal;
Wear at the ball,
You’ll live to spend all.
South Carolina.
CUSTOMS.
1402. Halloween cabbages are pulled and thrown against the owner’s door as a reminder of his laziness.
Southern Pennsylvania and Ohio.
1403. Shelled corn is thrown at every one—the significance not known.
Southern Pennsylvania.
1404. If a man is insulted and means to be revenged, he will bare his arm and cut a cross in it with his knife, called a “vengeance mark.”