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Show BELIEF IN "LUCKY PIECES" Superstition That Seems More General Gen-eral Now Than in the Days Before Be-fore the Great War. "That is my lucky piece," H veteran said, as lie pulled a shapeless little bit of metal out of his pocket Willi bis regular small change. "That's a bullet bul-let that just grazed my ear and burrowed bur-rowed into a wall right behind me." "What sort of luck has it brought you?" lie laughed. "Six months in hospilal from another bullet I be very next day. . . . lint 1 married tlio nurse, and she's a bit of good luck, you bet! I got Into the habil oT carrying car-rying this about; mosl all Ihe boys carry a pocket piece of some kind for luck whether they believe in luck or not." One man always carries a balf-i'. balf-i'. dlar In an inside pocket, by ilself, so that if Ids spending pocket happens to get emply he would not be altogether alto-gether destitute. There Is anolber who sews a .$10 bill in the fob poekot of every pair of Irousers he buys. In that way he can never have Ihe bad luck of forgetting to change bis money when he changes Ills dollies. True, he might have Ihe bad luck to forget to remove It when he sent Ihe Irousers Irous-ers to be pressed, but as be pbll-osoplileally pbll-osoplileally expresses II that would be good luek for tin? tailor. |