1321. If the sole of either foot itches, you will walk on strange ground.
_Boston, Mass._

1322. When about to begin a new enterprise, one must not step over straws
in starting out.

1323. If you stumble with the right foot, it means a glad surprise.
_Pennsylvania (negro)._

1324. In going anywhere, if you strike the right foot you will be welcome
wherever you may be going, and if the same happens to the left foot, you
will be on strange ground.
_Bellville, O._

1325. To sit on a table is a sign of coming disappointment.
_Maine and Massachusetts._

1326. In drinking tea, if you take a stem in the mouth it means an enemy;
you must bite it and throw it over the right shoulder.
_Central Maine._

1327. If you stub your toe going into a house, you are not wanted there.
_Guilford, Conn._

1328. If, in going visiting, you stub the right toe, you are welcome; if
the left, you are unwelcome.
_Massachusetts and Ohio._

1329. If you stub your toe going anywhere, it means a disappointment.
_Bathurst, N.B._

1330. Stub your toe,
Lose your beau.
_Salem, Mass._

1331. To bite the tongue while talking means that you have told a lie.

1332. If you bite your tongue suddenly while eating, it is a sign some
one is coming hungry.
_Cambridge, Mass._

1333. In going along the street or path, where there is a tree, go inside
rather than outside the tree, for you will be disappointed if you take
the latter course.
_Eastern Massachusetts._

1334. In drinking water, if you glance over the glass, you are a flirt.
_Pennsylvania._

1335. Whistling girls and crowing hens
Always come to some bad ends.
_General in the United States._

1336. Whistling girls and sheep
Are the very worst cattle a farmer can keep.

1337. A whistling girl and a laughing sheep,
Are the very best property a man can keep.
_Northern Ohio._

1338. Girls that whistle and hens that crow
Make their way wherever they go.

1339. Whistle before you eat,
Cry before you sleep.
_Baldwinsville, N.Y._

BODILY AFFECTIONS.

1340. If the right cheek burns, some one is speaking well of you; if the
left, they are speaking ill of you; if both, they speak well and ill at
once. Moisten the finger in the mouth and touch it to the cheek, naming
those whom you suspect; the one at