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Show Xeap Yeur Leg a. -.da. j Thcadvoni .; ,:.;.,, v-.s" ,mj th.' -.,ari.:!.M,r.,i:;r o -.!.-'r of da, , n.ako ai. tlitua i'ar,v,a..l to tLo l-is-oxiiio or I - Loip -oar has hlw,., i .-en ro?-,.l. j CO with so :.:,! T'UiT.-Jot-ti.-lI I.-,- the i pcariio of all f;,;;,;,i,, T;;,. oc.o-aidry ! .t H igl-.u.l alliiui f.'oas...au.i btaos .law jtlmwn.ai? way .u ihoir His Uiai is. ti.o j sco.waro sot contrary to t!,o v th, y j aias io Oidinary yoius. la U.-li-uu the ...n-H,,;:. ..,.;;! am y,,i'- is not only unpropitioas far ali I o.a- operauoas, b; that ihrouslioui. tin year the yotins of tho flomt'sii aaiuiais wiil not throve a,-, at other times, a similar fatality, they anju.?, o.!f--i-.'H to K 1 f 1 ta comes Et-aat!'.! or is blihifd t.-ioie attuiuiug its uenuai hia. ii.e s.iino ! peculiar ideas piou-ai in ltui.t, Tuikoy lartary, India an. I And-in. '! he Kossiai. proverb sajs: "If it. facsiai. l-etoiioiy 29 looks on a co sho wiU w iliu-i -" hi Arabia they say; As weak as a. l.iss. o-liic o-liic camol, and in I'm key ami i artary they call ail hunchbacks, ilwarfH ami ouier ueroruied men. woine'i and cm! "in n, leap year freaks, oat there are exceptions ex-ceptions to this as v.eil as to aii other luh-s, f,.r we tlnd !i;at in itaiv. Greece I t !t nag to leap year: Plant uracil , oni and I vine, its the year go. d for biend and The ancient Romans cacdTi, :! l-',-h- ioaiy -2:i a most ciilTc-t; sea-ca, l.i. i n-.-koi.injt it among tli-.-ir iniim-fey davs. That this belief has not by any 'means I ost srotuid is evi.lonced by a doer, ro d el dislike parents hay., io a child heia.r ! born on leap day, it beinsr a popular ! notion that to come into tlio waaidat such an odd time, is ominous as eu'nif-5 eu'nif-5 II ) t A uf tuis superstition exists in Tu .ciny and, according to apiece of the foil; I lore of thntcouniry. wh-n a child is j born on leap day either it .r its mother j will die before the end of the year. Ilumpson, in his Aiedii tAi Ksiendar-ium,:juotes Ksiendar-ium,:juotes tlio follow i!:g from ail ol.l Saxoa treaty: Saiu-. asseri. that th. hiEsextns.or l.-tip day Comes through ti.is, that Joshua prayed to G.d that ih -.'.in might stand still for one. day's length that he might sweep th? heatbrn from the land. It is trno that the sun did standstill, but the l-i- . vt.c is I .-! tiiroiii-U this, as some do thiak. |