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NATURE NOTES. 
6. On finding a plant of Shepherd’s Purse open a seed-vessel ; 
if the seed is yellow you will be rich, if green you will be poor. 
7. Poppies will give you a headache if you gather them. 
8. A bunch of rosemary thrown into a grave will make the 
spirit rest. 
9. If a stranger plants parsley in the garden, great trouble 
will befall the owner. 
10. If Rose-mary flourishes in a garden, the wife will be 
master ; if it dies, the master will ? 
11. “ Dead-men-fingers be bad plants; you mun niver pull 
’em.” 
12. If a child gather “Black-man-flowers,” Black man will 
carry him off in the night. 
13. “ If t’oak blaws afore t’esh, 
“ Then we’ rean we’ll get a splash. 
“ If t’esh blaws afore t’oak, 
“ Then de-pend we’ll heve a soak.” 
14. “ Many berries make a hard winter.” 
15. Take a dead “Hard-head” blossom and put it under 
your pillow. In the morning, if it has sprouted afresh, you will 
marry } r our lover ; if it has not sprouted you will never marry, or 
marry some unknown person. 
[“ Bird-nests” for the wild carrot dates back to the time of Gerard, who says : 
“ The whole tuft [of flowers] is drawn togither when the seede is ripe, resembling 
a birdes’ nest, whereupon it hath been named by some bird’s nest.” “ Coddle- 
apple ” (which we have from Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) was suggested 
by the smell of the flowers and young shoots of the Willowherb. “ Fiddle ” 
[or “ Fiddle- wood ”] was so-called because children strip the angular stems of 
their leaves, and produce a squeaking sound by drawing one across the other. 
“Granny-hood” is new to us for the Columbine, though Monk’s-hood has 
many similar names; is there any confusion here? “Tongue-bleed” is so 
named because children draw the rough leaves of Cleavers across their tongue, 
and so draw blood. The name “ Tom-thumb” is given to a very similar plant. 
Lathy rus prat 'fit sis, in Sussex and Berks.] 
Bird Names. 
Yeller-bird 
Yellow Hammer 
Yeller-bill... 
Blackbird 
Throstle ... 
Song Thrush 
Blue tit ... 
Tomtit 
Spink 
Chaffinch 
Shep 
Starling 
Storm-cock 
Missel Thrush 
Sand-swallow 
Sand Martin 
Pee-weep... 
Lapwing 
Peggy- white-throat 
White-throat 
Nanny dish-washer 
Water Wag-tail 
^Northern Thrush 
Fieldfare 
Green-linnet 
Greenfinch 
Fire-flitstarf 
Redstart 
t Mr. Swainson has “Fire-_/fr>/,” from the continual motion of its tail, which it 
constantly jerks up and down. 
