 | English essays - 1755 - 716 pages
...my fwcetheart, Betty faid we (hould he married before the year was our. But to make it more fure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with fait ; and when I went to bed, eat it (hell and all, without fpeaking or drinking after it... | |
 | 1774 - 296 pages
...my fweetheart, Betty faid we fhould be married before the year was out. But to make it more fure, I boiled an Egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with fait ; and when I went to bed, eat it {hell and all, without fpeaking or drinking after it.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 1168 pages
...my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with salt : and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 214 pages
...my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with salt ; and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the yeaj was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with salt ; and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...all, without speaking or drinking after it, afid this was to have the same effect with th< bay-leaves. We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and p&t them into waiter ; and the first that rose up was to he our Valentine 1 / Some rural ceremonies... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 274 pages
...my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with salt: and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 530 pages
...my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it up with salt : and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it,... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk and tilled it with salt ; und when I went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without...of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them Hto water, and the first that roue up was to be our Valentine — would you think it ! Mr. Blossom... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk and filled jt with salt ; and whoa I went to bed, -ate it, shell -and all, without speaking or drinking -altar it. We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put... | |
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I got five bay-leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard,... 
