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14. Some article of clothing intended for an unborn baby must be left unfinished or unbought, or the child will die.

Newfoundland.

15. If a baby is measured within a year, it will die.

Dildo and Carbo?iear, IV. F.

16. It is unlucky for a father to make a coffin for his first child. The child would die.

Carbonear and New Harbor, N F, Labrador.

17. It is unlucky to put the baby to the looking-glass before a year old. The child will die.

New Harbor and Harbor Grace, N F, Labrador.

18. It is unlucky to cut an infant's nails before a year old. The child will die.

Trinity Bay and Carbonear, N. F.

19. The higher the day-dawn the more wind, the lower, the less wind.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

20. A sky red before sunrise and the color disappearing before sun is up means wind ; if the red continues after sunrise, a fine day.

New Harbor and Heart's Delight, N F.

21. Sunset with a pink hue in the eastern sky is a sign of rain.

Newfoundland.

22. Northern lights, if whistled to, will come near (so half-breeds say).

Labrador.

23. Northern lights working to the west mean storm or bad weather (in winter).

Topsail Bay, N F, Labrador.

24. The fire burning blue means rain.

New Harbor and Carbonear, N. F.

25. Smoke falling is a sign of bad weather, rising of fine weather.

New Harbor and Carbofiear, N F.

26. The cracking of ice in cold weather is a sign that mild weather is coming.

Newfoundland.

27. Frost coming out of rocks and boards is a sign that mild weather is coming.

Newfoundland.

28. A smoky chimney is a sign of mild weather.

Trinity Bay, N. F.

29. If seal nets in winter " shingle," i. e. rise, from say ten fathoms or more, to the top of the water, coated with ice, it is a sign that mild weather is coming.

Labrador.

30. Thunder ends in the quarter the wind is coming from.

Labrador.

31. If a squall lasts longer than the calm, the wind is increasing, if the reverse, decreasing.

Carbonear and New Harbor, N F.

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