1314. To say anything backward is a sign you will get a present. _Peabody, Mass._ 1315. If you sing before you eat, You'll cry before you sleep. _Ohio and Iowa._ 1316. If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before supper. _Cambridge, Mass._ 1317. If you laugh before breakfast, you will cry before supper. _Prince Edward Island and Somerville, Mass._ 1318. Little birds that sing in the morning The old cat will catch before night. Accustomed to be said to children when they were especially hilarious in the early morning. _Northern Ohio._ 1319. If a child sing before breakfast, it will get a whipping before night. _New Hampshire._ 1320. To sing after you go to bed is a sign that tears will come before breakfast. _Maine._ 1321. If the sole of either foot itches, you will walk on strange ground. _Boston, Mass._ 1322. When about to begin a new enterprise, one must not step over straws in starting out. 1323. If you stumble with the right foot, it means a glad surprise. _Pennsylvania (negro)._ 1324. In going anywhere, if you strike the right foot you will be welcome wherever you may be going, and if the same happens to the left foot, you will be on strange ground. _Bellville, O._ 1325. To sit on a table is a sign of coming disappointment. _Maine and Massachusetts._ 1326. In drinking tea, if you take a stem in the mouth it means an enemy; you must bite it and throw it over the right shoulder. _Central Maine._ 1327. If you stub your toe going into a house, you are not wanted there. _Guilford, Conn._ 1328. If, in going visiting, you stub the right toe, you are welcome; if the left, you are unwelcome. _Massachusetts and Ohio._ 1329. If you stub your toe going anywhere, it means a disappointment. _Bathurst, N.B._ 1330. Stub your toe, Lose your beau. _Salem, Mass._ 1331. To bite the tongue while talking means that you have told a lie. 1332. If you bite your tongue suddenly while eating, it is a sign some one is coming hungry. _Cambridge, Mass._ 1333. In going along the street or path, where there is a tree, go inside rather than outside the tree, for you will be disappointed if you take the latter course. _Eastern Massachusetts._ 1334. In drinking water, if you glance over the glass, you are a flirt. _Pennsylvania._ 1335. Whistling girls and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends. _General in the United States._ 1336. Whistling girls and sheep Are the very worst cattle a farmer can keep. 1337. A whistling girl and a laughing sheep, Are the very best property a man can keep. _Northern Ohio._ 1338. Girls that whistle and hens that crow Make their way wherever they go. 1339. Whistle before you eat, Cry before you sleep. _Baldwinsville, N.Y._ BODILY AFFECTIONS.