at a whipping is in store for
the transgressor.

1281. If you twirl a chair around on one leg, it is a sign that you are
about to break dishes.
_Chestertown, Md._

1282. You mustn't pay the doctor entirely, or there will be sickness in
the family.
_Lonsdale, R.I._

1283. You must leave by the door through which you enter, or there will
be trouble with the family, or ill luck to yourself.
_Pennsylvania._

1284. If you leave by any other door than the one through which you have
entered, it is said that you will not come again.
_Cumberland, Me._

1285. In bathing, the eyes should always be rubbed towards the nose, as
that makes them large, and rubbing out the opposite way makes them small.
_Cambridge, Mass._

1286. In climbing a fence,--

Get over, meet with clover,
Get through, meet with a shoe;
Get under, meet with a blunder.
_Sunderland, Mass._

1287. If you step on a grave, you will never grow any more.
_Chestertown, Md. (negro)._

1288. Step over a living thing, and that thing, whether a human being or
not, will not grow any more.
_Province of Quebec, Can._

1289. To step over one leg of a child will cause it to grow longer than
the other.
_Baltimore, Md._

1290. To comb the hair after dark is a sign of sickness.

Comb your hair after dark,
Comb sorrow to your heart.
_Connecticut._

1291. If you comb your hair after dark, it will make you forgetful.
_Northern Ohio._

1292. If the right hand itches, you are going to get money; if the left,
you will shake hands with a friend. If the nose itches, a friend is
coming.
_Talladega, Ala._

1293. Two persons wiping hands on the same towel and twisting it
occasions a quarrel.
_Pennsylvania._

1294. Wash and wipe together,
Live in peace together.
_Northern Ohio._

1295. If two persons wash their hands at the same time, it is a sign that
they will be friends forever.
_Alabama._

1296. If two persons wipe their hands at the same time, they will be foes
forever.
_Alabama._

1297. When two persons put one hand of each flat together, palm to palm,
they will quarrel.
_Province of Quebec, Can._

1298. If two persons clasp hands so as to lock the fingers, bringing the
palm of one person against the palm of the other person's hand, it will
break