 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...otherwise attach to them ; and the rustics have a rhyme in which this belief is expressed: " Take out, then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out. Good luck comes about."] It appears from a curious MS. in the British Museum, of the date of 1560, that the boys of Eton school... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pages
...some portion of the year. This sentiment is expressed in the following popular rhyme : — Take out, then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck cornea about. A remarkable instance of the strength of the superstitious reverence for this day, or... | |
 | sir James MacNabb Campbell - 1885 - 540 pages
...something was brought in. The rustics have a rhyme in which this belief is expressed — " Take out, then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about." (Do., .I, 15). In Old England, people took heed to dismal days by using nice observances on the new-moon... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 pages
...let the incomings of the New Year exceed the outgoings, in accordance with the Lincolnshire saying, ' Take out and then take in, bad luck will begin ; Take in and then take out, good luck comes about.' But, as the taboo on ' taking out ' is sometimes attached... | |
 | Charlotte Sophia Burne - 1886 - 314 pages
...let the incomings of the New Year exceed the outgoings, in accordance with the Lincolnshire saying, ' Take out and then take in, bad luck will begin ; Take in and then take out, good luck comes about." But, as the taboo on ' taking out ' is sometimes attached... | |
 | 1887 - 610 pages
...some misfortune may certainly be looked for. The servant girls are desirous that their ' first foot ' should be a lover, and sometimes they ensure it by...Lincolnshire rhyme runs — Take out and then take in, Had luck will bo1fin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about. A friend tells me that in the... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 590 pages
...it is well — To make the old year go out groaning, And keep the new year from coming in moaning. A Lincolnshire rhyme runs — Take out and then take...begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about. — AS. 72, 73. QUICKEN-TREE. Two hogsheads full of money were concealed in a subterraneous vault at... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 pages
...it is well— To make the old year go out groaning, And keep the new year from coming in moaning. A Lincolnshire rhyme runs— Take out and then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, QUICKEN-TREE. Good luck comes about.—AS. 72, 73. Two hogsheads full of money were concealed in a... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 pages
...continues very loud and blustering all the twelve days. — Brathwait, Whimzies, 1631 : A Pedkr. Take out, then take in, bad luck will begin ; take in, then take out, good luck bring about. — Brand. At Twelfth-day the days are lengthened a cock-stride. (The Italians say at... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 500 pages
...little din, At doors the lassies sentrie keep, To let the first fit in. — Rev. J. Nicolls, Poems. Take out and then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about. — (Lincolnshire.) The young people were accustomed to go from house on New Year's Day, repeating... | |
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Take out, then take in ; bad luck will begin. Take in, then take out, good luck comes about. 
