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 tho bones of fish and poultry engenders scandal on tho consumer, especially if a femalo.—It is not lucky to eut hair on a Sunday, or a Wednesday, and not at all in tho Passion Week.—It is very unlueky to stumblo when you are on tho road to the church to bo married; it denotes early separation, or widowhood. To meet a funeral as you go to ehurch 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 displeasuro from a superior, or a person who has authority over you.
