T O make your candles last for a', You wives and maids give ear-o! To put 'em out's the only way, T. SWITHIN'S day, if thou dost rain, STR For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, F wishes were horses, IF Beggars would ride; If turnips were watches, I would wear one by my side. ATURE requires five, No Custom gives seven! Laziness takes nine, And Wickedness eleven. [Hours of Sleep. S EE a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day! Bou OUNCE BUCKRAM, velvet's dear; A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger; a Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger; Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter; Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow; Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart to-morrow. W WHEN the wind is in the east, 'Tis neither good for man nor beast ; When the wind is in the north, |