ll get the money, but if they escape he will not.
_Prince Edward Island._
716. If a group of bubbles are floating on the tea or coffee cup, take
them up in a spoon, and swallow them unbroken, saying, "Save my money."
_Plymouth and Salem, Mass., and New Brunswick._
717. If when you stir your coffee at breakfast you will try to catch the
bubbles on top, you can have as many dollars as you can catch whole ones.
_Alabama._
718. To find money and keep it insures good luck through the year.
_Talladega, Ala._
719. Put the first piece of money you get in the morning into your
stocking, and you will have more to add to it before night.
_Alabama._
720. If you find a piece of money the first day of the year, you will
have good luck all the rest of the year.
_Alabama._
721. If paper money is folded lengthwise first, it will insure the
possession of money. If folded the short fold first, money will not
remain in the pocket.
_Alabama._
722. To make a sale in the first place where an agent calls is good luck.
For example, a magnifying-glass worth three dollars was sold for
seventy-five cents, in order to stop a run of bad luck by making a sale.
_Massachusetts._
723. If your initials spell a word, it means that you will be rich.
_Massachusetts and Ohio._
724. If the right hand itches, it is a sign you will receive money; if
the left, you will spend money, because _R_ stands for receive, and _L_
for let go.
_New York._
725. If the left hand itches and you rub it on wood, you'll receive money
before the end of the week.
Rub it on wood
To make it good.
_Very common in New Brunswick and New England._
726. Itching in the palm of the hand means that it will soon receive
money. Clap the closed hand into the pocket.
_Mt. Desert, Me._
727. If you place your money according to value, _i.e._, lay it in order,
you will be rich.
_Bedford, Mass._
728. An old superstition pertaining to clothing is, that before putting
on new clothes a sum of money must be placed in the right-hand pocket,
which will insure its always being full. If by mistake, however, it be
put in the left hand pocket, the wearer will never have a penny so long
as the clothes last.
729. There's a "bag of money," or a "pot of gold," at the end of the
rainbow.
_General among children._
730. If
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