173. Name apple pips, put them on the grate, saying,—
If you love me, live and fly;
If you do not, lie and die.
BABIES.
174. Kiss the baby when nine days old, and the first gentleman you kiss afterward will be your future husband.
New England.
BED.
175. Go upstairs backward, into a chamber backward, and into bed backward. Drink some salt and water, and if you dream of some one bringing you drink it will be your future husband.
Maine and Salem, Mass.
176. The first time two girls sleep together let them tie two of their big toes together with woollen yarn, and the one with the shortest piece of broken string left attached in the morning will be married first.
Northern Ohio.