FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 43: The flight of a blue jay on a person's left side is
considered a lucky omen when one starts on any business; the appearance
of a cat before anyone at such a time is looked on as a bad omen. There
are many omens of the same kind.]
[Footnote 44: Such as the throbbing of the right eye of men and the left
eye of women, etc.]
[Footnote 45: Before anything is begun it is a custom to go early in the
morning to a neighbour's house, and overhear the first words that may be
spoken in his family, and according as the words heard are of good or
bad import, so draw an inference as to the success or failure of the
undertaking.]
[Footnote 46: A disease consisting of any glandular enlargement in any
part of the body.]
[Footnote 47: A woman, the palms of whose hands and the soles of whose
feet are always perspiring.]