oe, spend as you go;
On the heel, love to do weel;
On the ball, live to spend all.
_Boston._

1398. Hole in the toe, spend as you go:
Hole at the side, be a rich bride;
Hole at the heel, spend as you feel;
Hole on the ball, live to spend all.
_New York._

1399. Wear at the toe, live to see woe;
Wear at the side, live to be a bride;
Wear at the ball, live to spend all;
Wear at the heel, live to save a deal.
_New York._

1400. Wear on the toe,
Spend as you go;
Wear on the ball,
Love to spend all.
Wear on the side,
You'll be a rich bride.

1401. Of stockings:--

Wear at the toe,
Spend as you go:
Wear at the heel,
Spend a good deal;
Wear at the ball,
You'll live to spend all.
_South Carolina._

CUSTOMS.

1402. Halloween cabbages are pulled and thrown against the owner's door
as a reminder of his laziness.
_Southern Pennsylvania and Ohio._

1403. Shelled corn is thrown at every one--the significance not known.
_Southern Pennsylvania._

1404. If a man is insulted and means to be revenged, he will bare his arm
and cut a cross in it with his knife, called a "vengeance mark."
_Mountains of North Carolina._

1405. If you wash your face in dew before sunrise on May Day, you will
become very beautiful.
_Alabama._

1406. Dry spots, where there is no dew, are called "fairy rings."
_Salem, Mass._

1407. Run round a fairy ring twice on Easter Sunday morning, and fairies
will arise and follow you.
_Salem, Mass._

1408. The looking-glass is often turned with the face to the wall, or
taken out of the room during a thunder-storm, because "quick-silver is so
bad to draw the lightning."
_Bathurst, N.B._

1409. You are said to "take the manners" if you take the last of any kind
of food from a plate.
_New England._

1410. "Manners dish" is the dish put on for show, and not expected to be
eaten.
_Northern Ohio._

1411. Homoeopathic pills must be taken in odd numbers.
_New England._

1412. When a meteor is seen, Catholics often say, "A soul is ascending
into heaven."

1413. A present of a knife or any pointed instrument cuts friendship;
always sell it for a penny.

1414. A present of pins breaks friendship.
_General in the United States._