.
_Boston, Mass._

137. Put some of your hair in the fire. If it burns slowly you will have
a long life. If quickly, a short one.
_Chestertown, Md._

HAND.

138. A straight line in the palm of the hand is an omen of early death.
_Massachusetts._

139. The letter formed by the veins on the inside of the wrist is the
initial of the name of the future husband or wife.
_St. John, N.B._

140. A person with an initial in his hand will be very fortunate in
selecting a companion for life.
_Alabama._

141. In clasping your own hand, you put uppermost either your right or
your left thumb. If the former, you are to rule; _vice versa_, you yield.
_Brookline, Mass._

142. If the thumb sticks up in the closed fist, you are either capable or
honest, probably the latter, as thieves are said to double theirs in.
_New England._

143. If you cannot make your thumb and one finger meet around your wrist,
you are a glutton.
_Province of Quebec._

144. If you cannot touch the tips of your little finger and first finger
together behind the two middle fingers, on both hands, then you will not
marry the man you want to marry.
_Province of Quebec._

145. Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you
were born in the daytime. If the left overlap, you were born at night.

146. The number of folds on your wrist as you bend your hand shows the
number of thirties you are to live.
_Massachusetts._

147. If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it
indicates a thief.

MOLES.

148. A mole on the eyebrow denotes that one will be hanged. On the ear it
denotes that he will be drowned.
_Chestertown, Md._

149. Mole above breath
Means wealth.

150. Moles on the neck,
Money by the peck.
_Prince Edward Island and Northern Ohio._

151. A mole on the neck indicates that its owner will be hanged.
_Boston, Mass._

152. A mole on the side of the neck means a death by hanging.
_Central Maine._

153. A mole on the arm indicates riches.
_Boston, Mass._

154. Mole on your arm,
Live on a farm.
_Alabama._

155. A mole on the arm means that you will fight many battles, and will
be very successful in them.
_Prince Edward Island._

NOSE.

156. A vein across the nose is an omen of short life.