t enter.
_Niagara Falls, Ont._

44. While tying on a baby's cap repeat,--

Look up there and see a fly,
Look down there and see it die.

Its chin will follow the direction indicated, and the tying is hastened.
_Brookline, Mass._

VARIOUS.

45. First a daughter, then a son,
The world is well begun.
First a son, then a daughter,
Trouble follows after.
_Maine and Massachusetts._

46. First a son, then a daughter,
You've begun just as you oughter.
_Brookline, Mass._

47. Rock a cradle empty,
Babies will be plenty.
_Peabody, Mass._

48. Rock the cradle empty,
Have children a plenty,
Rock the chair empty,
Have sickness a plenty.
_Nashua, N.H._

49. To rock the cradle when the baby is not in it will kill it.
_New York._

50. If the empty cradle be rocked, the baby will have the colic.
_New York and Ohio._

51. The first time a baby is taken visiting, if it is laid on a married
couple's bed there will be a baby for that couple.
_Salem, Mass._

52. The mother who gives away all the clothes of her dead baby will
eventually be comforted by the coming of another child.

53. However many children a woman may have, the last will be of the same
gender as the first, and they will look alike.
_Maine and Massachusetts._

54. One article of an unborn infant's wardrobe must be left unmade or
unbought or the child is liable not to live.
_Salem, Mass._

55. A baby's nails must not be cut with scissors before it is a year old;
it will make it steal.
_North Carolina._

56. To cut a baby's finger-nails deforms it; if the baby is a month old,
to do this will cause the child to have fits.
_Georgia._

57. To allow a child to look into a mirror before it is a month old will
cause it trouble in teething.
_Georgia._

58. Tickling a baby causes stuttering.
_Georgia._

59. If an infant be measured, it will die before its growing time is over.
_Georgia._

CHAPTER II.

CHILDHOOD.

ASSEVERATION.

60. A child to whom is told any story which he considers remarkable will
usually reply by an expression of skepticism, such as: "Really and
truly?" "Honestly?" "Earnest, now?" or, "You are fooling." The first
speaker answers by some formula or asseveration, as, "Honor bright" (_