How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 106
anyone as a gift of For-tune is being sung, or if they fail to strike it as it passes,or,striking, they send it into the centre of the ring instead of totheir next neighbor, it denotes that Fortune will withhold thatspecial gift from them, and they must leave the circle, for goodluck has deserted…
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