"The other day in going through Mid-Cardiganshire on election business, I observed one row of turnips growing in the middle of a field of potatoes on a farm occupied by a Nonconformist minister. When asked how it happened that that solitary row of turnips came to be there, the minister explained that by accident the planters missed putting down potatoes, and the idea prevailed in the district if the vacant row was not filled in by sowing something in it, some one would die in consequence in the neighbourhood." This superstition is also found in Carmarthenshire as well as in Cardiganshire. I have met with many ministers of the Gospel, Professors of Universities, and other enlightened and educated men who are convinced that there are death portents. CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS BELIEFS, WEATHER SIGNS, BIRDS, LORE, Etc. To find a horse shoe on the road or in a field is considered extremely lucky. To see a lamb for the first time during the season with its head facing you is also lucky. When you see a newly-wedded couple throw an old pair of shoes at them, for it means "good luck to them." This was done now at Llanilar, October, 1910, at the wedding of Miss Jones, Bryntirion, by Mrs. Richards, Derwen-Deg. To drop your stick or umbrella on your journey is unlucky. When you have started on a journey, to turn back to the house for something you have forgotten, means bad luck. To bring heather into the house is a sign of death: white heather, however, is considered extremely lucky. It is unlucky to meet a white horse when on a journey, to change it into luck spit over your little finger. If a young lady looks through a silk-handkerchief at the first new moon after New Year's Day, she will be able to see her future husband. It is unlucky to find a coin on the road, but if the head and not the tail happens to be up it is a lucky omen. To carry in one's purse a crooked sixpence, or a coin with a hole in it is lucky. Spit on the first coin you get in the day, and you'll have luck for 24 hours. Never begin any new work on a Friday or Saturday. It is considered unlucky for a servant to go to service on a Thursday or a Saturday. In Cardiganshire servants go to service either on a Monday or Wednesday, which are considered lucky days. A woman near Narberth in Pembrokeshire told me that Tuesdays and Thursdays are lucky days in that part. In some parts of Carmarthenshire, the most lucky days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. But the fact of it is, I have discovered that the days which are considered lucky in one part of the country are considered unlucky in another part. Odd numbers, especially three, and seven, are said to be lucky numbers. Thirteen, however, is considered very unlucky, and it is thought that if thirteen persons sit down to table, the last person who sits down and the first to rise up, are those to whom the ill-luck will fall.