Page:Mother Bunch's golden fortune-teller.pdf/22

22THE GOLDEN FORTUNE-TELLER SIGNS.

To cut your nails on a Sunday is unlucky, cut them on a Monday is best; on Wednesday prognosticates a quarrel; every other is a matter of indifference.—Bellows found lying on a table or floor, is a sign of words in the domestic circle; to put them behind the door shows trouble for debt; bellows laid on a chair, denotes the near approach of a welcome stranger to the house.—Burning beef bones brings sorrow through poverty; and to cast those of pork or veal into the fire, inflicts pains in the bones of the person so improvident; burning thothe [sic] bones of fish and poultry engenders scandal on thothe [sic] consumer, especially if a femalofemale [sic].—It is not lucky to eutcut [sic] hair on a Sunday, or a Wednesday, and not at all in thothe [sic] Passion Week.—It is very unluekyunlucky [sic] to stumblostumble [sic] when you are on thothe [sic] road to the church to bobe [sic] married; it denotes early separation, or widowhood. To meet a funeral as you go to ehurchchurch [sic] on this errand, shows you will have to encounter a life of domestic jars, and a very indifferent partner.—For a fire to burn black and gloomy, is a certain sign of dissension or unpleasant tidings from a distant quarter. For a fire to spit or roar, is a sign of some heavy displeasurodispleasure [sic] from a superior, or a person who has authority over you.