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Show 'Ye Collier. Guide of Signes and Waruings.'' A friend writes that he picked up, some time since, at a book-stall, an old family Bible, bearing the name of a Black Country collier, and the number num-ber and respective ages of his progeny. pro-geny. On the fly-leaf, under the heading head-ing which appears at the commencement commence-ment cf this paragraph, he deciphered with tome difficulty the following directions iu regard to the supernatural phases of mining life : "1. To dreame of a broken shoe, a sure signe of danger. 2. If you mete a woman at the risinge of ye sun, turn again from ye pit : a signe of death. 3. To dreame of a fire is a signe of danger. 4. To see a bright lighte in ye mine, is a warninge to flee away. 0. When foule smells ben about ye pit, a sure signe that ye imps ben annear. 0. To charme away ghosts and ye like : take a Bible and a key, hold both in ye righie hand, and say ye Lord's Prayer, and they will speedily get farre away." Outsell' 8 Magazine. |