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tick as you have warts, and standing on a bridge, throw the stick over your left shoulder, and turn your head; they will go off before you leave the bridge. _Alabama._ 923. Cut notches in a stick to the number of warts you have, and then bury the stick. _Massachusetts._ 924. Some pretend to remove warts by "touching with the sharp point of a stick and rubbing them in the notch of another stick; then if the patient tells of it, they will come back.[TN-8] _Alabama._ 925. Take as many joints of oat or wheat straw as a person has warts, and burn them under a stone. As the joints rot, the warts disappear. This is to be done by another for you. _Cape Breton._ 926. Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump. _Southern Indiana._ 927. Kill a toad, and put its blood on the wart. The warts will go away in three weeks. _Marquette, Mich._ 928. Warts are cured by tying a knot in a string for every wart, and putting under the eaves of the house. The warts go as the string rots. _Ohio._ 929. Warts may be cured by applying to them water standing in the hollow of an oaken stump. _Boxford, Mass., and Ohio._ CHAPTER XIV. WEATHER COLD. 930. As the days begin to lengthen, So the cold begins to strengthen. _Northeastern United States and Canada._ 931. Fire spitting sparks means cold weather. _Patten, Me._ 932. If the fire burns well, it is coming cold weather. _General in the United States._ 933. Fog in winter is always succeeded by cold and wind. 934. Plenty of hawberries foretell a "hard winter," _i.e._, they are to serve as a store of food for birds. _Canada._ 935. Cold weather comes after the wind has blown over the oat stubble. _Pennsylvania._ DAYS AND TIMES. 936. The first Tuesday after the new moon settles the weather for that quarter. _Newfoundland._ 937. If it is a fair sunset Friday night, it will rain before Monday. _Massachusetts._ 938. If it storms on a Friday, it will storm again before the next Monday. _Massachusetts and New York._ 939. If the sun sets clear Friday night, it will not rain before Monday night; but if it sets in a cloud, it will rain before Monday night. _Boston, Mass._ 940. The
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