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" Last Friday was Valentine's Day, and the night before 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... "
The People's journal (with which is incorporated Howitt's journal) ed. by J ... - Page 336
by People's and Howitt's journal
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London Magazine Enlarged and Improved, Volume 24

1755 - 716 pages
...of 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...
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The Connoisseur, Volume 2

1774 - 296 pages
...pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then, if I dreamt of 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...
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The British Essayists: The Connoisseur

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 1168 pages
...corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle.; and then, if I dreams of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But...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,...
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Select British Classics, Volume 28

1803 - 214 pages
...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...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....
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 5

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...the middle, and then, if I dreamed of 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...
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Connoisseur

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 274 pages
...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...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,...
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The British Essayists: Connoisseur

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 530 pages
...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...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,...
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Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography ..., Volume 1

1824 - 486 pages
...corners of my pillows, and tita fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamed of my sweetheart, UaUy said we should be married before the year was out. But...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 speaking or drinking after...
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Saturday night

Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...then, if { dreamed of my sweetheart, Betty •said we should be married before the year was nut. -Bet 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...
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The every-day book, or, The guide to the year

William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said lorers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water : and the first...
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