friendship.
_Newton, Mass._

1299. If you hug your knee (hold your knee in clasped hands), you will
hug up trouble.
_Salem and Medford, Mass._

1300. When your joints crack, it is a sign that you have not outlived
your best days.
_New York, N.Y._

1301. If you kiss through a veil, there'll be a coolness.
_Portland, Me._

1302. Crossed knives are a sign of a quarrel.
_Cumberland, Mass._

1303. Stir with a knife,
Stir up strife.

1304. Never look after a friend who is leaving you till he is quite out
of sight, or you will never see him or her again; but turn your eyes away
while he is still visible, that he or she may return.
_General in the United States._

1305. Never say "good-by" more than once.
_Alabama._

1306. One who habitually bites the nails is ill-natured.
_Ohio._

1307. If you bite your finger-nails you will always be poor.
_Massachusetts._

1308. If you sleep with your head towards the north, it will prevent
sickness.
_General in the United States._

1309. If you can cut a pie fair and true, you'll have a likely husband.
If you make the slices uneven, he'll be crooked.

1310. If you make a bed handsomely, you'll have a handsome husband.

1311. If you cut pie straight, you will go to housekeeping.
If you cut pie crooked, you will have no house to keep.
_New Hampshire._

1312. If you make a rhyme involuntarily, you will have a present.
_New Brunswick._

1313. The free use of salt is a sign of having a temper.
_Lynn, Mass._

1314. To say anything backward is a sign you will get a present.
_Peabody, Mass._

1315. If you sing before you eat,
You'll cry before you sleep.
_Ohio and Iowa._

1316. If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before supper.
_Cambridge, Mass._

1317. If you laugh before breakfast, you will cry before supper.
_Prince Edward Island and Somerville, Mass._

1318. Little birds that sing in the morning
The old cat will catch before night.

Accustomed to be said to children when they were especially hilarious in
the early morning.
_Northern Ohio._

1319. If a child sing before breakfast, it will get a whipping before
night.
_New Hampshire._

1320. To sing after you go to bed is a sign that tears will come before
breakfast.
_Maine._