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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.]