"Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
When the Conqueror came, were found at home."

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"Who on the Sabbath pares his horn,
'Twere better for him he had never been born."

"At toto Thori die hominibus ungues secare minime licuit."
--Finn Magnusen, _Lex. Edd._, s.v. _Thor_.

In the district of Bohnsland, in Sweden, in the middle of the eighteenth
century, it was not thought proper to fell wood on the afternoon of
Thursday. (Id.)

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"Many slones [sloes], many groans,
Many nits [nuts], many pits."

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"When the aspen leaves are no bigger than your nail,
Is the time to look out for truff and peel."

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_Margaret's Flood_.--Heavy rain is expected about the time of St.
Margaret's day (July 20th). It is called "Margaret's flood."