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192 Entrails are not found ound, but damaged. The firt Week after the Delivery, they eat nothing but Fih, afterwards they are allowed Meat. The Bones they pick, in this State, mut not be carried out of Doors. After the firt Childbed, a Woman is not allowed to eat of the Head or Liver. They mut not eat in the open Air. During their they have their  for themelves alone; if any unwittingly hould drink of this Water, the ret mut forbear working for ome Weeks, neither mut they drive any Trade during that Time: Likewie if any body be ick, they do not care to meddle with any Trade. They are not allowed to eat or drink bareheaded. They pull off one of their Boots, and lay it under the Bowl, which they eat out of, to the End (as they imagine) that the Infant, being a Male, may become a good During the Infancy of the Child, they dare not boil any thing over the Lamp, nor let any Strangers light a Fire with them; and many more