The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-07
This Is a capital stimulus to early

eat. This is capital stimulus to early
rising. '.Many's the time" saws
Sandy, "when was lump of a boy,
Eve seen me jumping out of bed and
swallowing a bit oat cake for fear
would be hearing the cuckoo before |
would get my meat"
One morning at breakfast the sister
of the man at whose house | was, has
tened to offer me some butter. This
will be good day for you, he said, at
once. "N hy?' Il am sure you know
it is good luck to get butter without
asking for it." al never heard that be-
fore" well, said he, There was a
man in Null and he was going to the
wars, and when he was leaving his
home his mother said TO him: If You
will get butter without asking for it on
the morning of the fighting You will be
sure to come back to me alive. Sc
when the day came for the LATHE he
was taking his meat in house, but he
would not ask for any butter, and at
last the wife offered him some, and
thea he knew he would come out alive.
1t Is considered very had luck in Jura
TO start for any place and then turn
back. \ woman one day stopped al
the house where | was living, on her
way to the lower end OF the island. She
was suffering from a bad toOthache, but
il was thought there wa nothing in the
house TO give her relief just as she
had got three steps away from the door
some brandy was fou; and she was
called back. But She would rather have
suffered from thrty-two toothaches
than turh back after starting, ard the
brandy had to be carried out to her
When boat that has been drawn
ashore for safety has to be launched
again, it must, OF course, be showed into
the water stern foremost. Its bow will
then face the shore, and it must he
turned around before starting. The
way in which this turn is made is full OF
omen in Jura. Il would be getting q
tine hearing" said a man to me one
day, "if old Archie saw me do the like
| of that" We were pushing off ON
! shore, and he had merely turned G
boats head around from west TO east.
The rule is that the boat shall turn with
!, the SUI, never against it.
When Spring comes, with its new
sights and sounds, there are various
signs by which Jura people determine
whether or not the year will be lucky
for them. "Oh, this will be gooC
year for me, | heard a woman
exclaim one day at Lagg, as q number
of persons We're walking down to the
boats; and SIZE stopped and gazed down
at a snail crawling over the grass. L
was the first snail she had seen tina
year. but if it had been crawling Owe
bare ground or stone it would hav,
! meant bad luck is THAI the first foa
You have seen this YEAR, asked thu
| postman OF me as we drove past a i.elC
in his gig. said il was. Well, then
there's good luck coming to you, for h
is looking straight in Your face 1t il
also said OF lamb, as well as foal
| that to see the first one turned awal
from you is a sign of i'll omen. wa
sitting one day with some shepherds OF
the top of n hiliock, waiting for tn
sheep around us to get dry enough t,
be shorn. when one OF the men said +
me: See the spider. You will s0ol
be getting new clothes, sir. J." A spide
was crawling over me. In Gaelic tn
words for spider and weaver aye tn
same Il Cor. San Francisco Erq,Htma1