Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volumul 18American Folk-lore Society, 1925 |
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Anne Hutchinson apple Ascension Day baby bad luck Baltimore black cat bread bride bring Bumpty bung burn child Christmas clothes colored comes corn cross crows cure dead Debble dere door dress drum fish Easter eggs ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS Emmittsburg erysipelas finger fire first-foot Folk-Lore Friday future husband ghost girl hair Hallowe'en hand Harum scarum head hear Hilo horse shoe itches Jack kill look luck to dream luck to meet luck to put lucky marriage married Maryland means moon morning mother nails negro never night person pick pit-a-pat plant quilla ring rooster round salt sign of death sign of rain singing snake sneeze someone spell spider spit throw told tree turn unlucky walk warts wear weather wedding Whisky Johnny whooping cough wish witch woman
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Pagina 162 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Pagina 107 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go/ Friday's child is loving and giving/ Saturday's child works hard for a living/ But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day/ Is bonny, and blithe, and good, and gay.
Pagina 23 - Tis neither good for man nor beast ; When the wind is in the north, The skillful fisher goes not forth ; When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait in the fish's mouth ; When the wind is in the west, Then 'tis at the very best.
Pagina 153 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her. "Don't stand chattering to yourself like that," Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time; "but tell me your name and your business.
Pagina 115 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Pagina 105 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty.one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty.eight; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Pagina 159 - SEE a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! CLX.
Pagina 145 - Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning!
Pagina 156 - IF all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we do for drink?
Pagina 73 - One, I love, Two, I love, Three, I love, I say, Four, I love with all my heart, And five, I cast away ; Six, he loves, Seven, she loves, Eight, they both love ; Nine, he comes, Ten, he tarries, Eleven, he courts, Twelve, he marries ; Thirteen wishes, Fourteen kisses, All the rest little witches.