New Hampshire.

BIBLE.

183. Read the third verse of the third chapter of Hosea, Joel, and Amos for three Sundays in succession, and the first gentleman you walk with you will marry.

Nashua, N. H.

184. Put the end of a key in the Bible, on the verse of Solomon’s Song reading, “I am my beloved’s and he is mine;” close the book and bind it round with string or garter, each girl supporting the key with the first finger of the right hand. One of them repeats a verse to each letter as the other girl names it, beginning the alphabet, till it turns at the initial of the future husband or lover.

General in the United States.

BIRDS.

185. When you see a turkey-buzzard flying alone, repeat,—

Hail! Hail! Lonely, lonesome turkey-buzzard:
Hail to the East, hail to the West,
Hail to the one that I love best.
Let me know by the flap of your wing
Whether he (or she) loves me or not.

Note the manner of the bird’s flight: if he flaps his wings your lover is true; if not, the lover is false.