A Girl's Valentine Charm
AS TOLD BY HERSELF
(From the Connoisseur, 1775)
Last
Friday was Valentine's Day, and I'll tell you what I
did 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 would 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 with salt, and when I went to bed
ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after
it.
We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and
rolled them up in clay and put them into water; and the
first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think
it? Mr. Blossom was my man, and I lay abed and shut my eyes
all the morning, till he came to our house, for I would not
have seen another man before him for all the world.
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