rst man who
comes on the side where the clover is will be her future husband.
_Michigan._

195. Put a four-leaved clover in your shoe, and you will marry a man
having the first name of the man whom you meet first after doing it.
_Province of Quebec._

196. With a four-leaved clover in your shoe, you will meet your lover.
_Michigan._

197. If the finder of a four-leaved clover put it in her own shoe, she
will marry the first person with whom she crosses a bridge.
_Michigan._

198. Put a four-leaved clover over the door. The first person to pass
beneath will be your future mate.
_Newport, R.I., and Michigan._

COUNTING.

199. Count sixty white horses and one white mule, then you will marry the
first man with whom you shake hands.
_Chestertown, Md._

200. Count a hundred white horses and two white mules, and the first
person you shake hands with you'll marry.
_Pennsylvania._

201. Count a hundred white horses during leap year. The first man that
shakes hands with you after you have your hundred will be your future
husband.
_Bedford, Mass._

202. Count one hundred gray horses (one mule stands for ten horses), and
the first gentleman with whom you shake hands is your intended.
_Alabama._

203. After meeting ninety-nine white horses and a brown one for the
hundredth, the first person with whom you shake hands will be your future
mate.
_Newport, R.I._

204. Count five hundred colored people, and the next gentleman you meet
you will marry.
_Cambridge, Mass._

205. Count ninety-nine negroes and one white horse, and the first boy you
answer "yes" or "no" to you will marry.
_South Boston, Mass._

206. Count forty white horses, the first man you meet afterwards you'll
marry.
_Champaign, Ill._

207. In crossing a bridge, if one sees two white horses on it (in
different teams) and wishes at once for a man to marry her, she'll get
him.
_Peabody, Mass._

208. Count a hundred "tips" (a bow with the lifting of the hat). The
hundredth will be your future husband.
_Eastern Massachusetts._

209. Count the buttons of an old boot. The number of buttons indicates
the number of years before marriage.
_Massachusetts._

210. If you count the boards of the ceiling (loft) in a strange room
before going to sleep, you will dream of your lover.
_Newf