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9 husband will take her sprig out of the -water, and sprinkle her shift with it.

Another way to see a future Spouse in a Dream. The party enquiring must lie in a different from that in which she commonly, and on going to bed must knit the left  about the right-leg stocking, letting the  garter and stocking alone; and as you  the following verses, at every comma  a knot.

Accordingly in a dream, he will appear with insignia of his trade or profession.

To know if your present Sweetheart will marry you.—Let any unmarried woman take the blade bone of a shoulder of lamb, and borrowing a penknife, (but be sure not to mention for what purpose) on going to bed stick the knife once the bone, every night, for nine nights,  different places, repeating every night, while sticking the knife, these words:—

Accordingly, at the end of nine days, or shortly after, he will ask for something to put to a wound he will have met with during the time you were charming him.

To know whether a Woman will have the Man she wishes.—Get two lemon peels, wear them all day, one in each pocket, at night rub the four posts of the bedstead with them; if she is to