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Show BELIEF IN '-LUCKY PIECES' Superstition That Seems More Ger-eral Ger-eral Now Than in the Days Before Be-fore the Great War. "Tba't is my lucky piece." a vetcn. said, as be pulled a shapeless little I of metal out of his pocket with regular small change. "That's a billot bil-lot that just grazed my ear and Intro Int-ro wed inlo a wall right behind im-"What im-"What sort of luck has it bror.-,: you?" He laughed. "Six months : hospital from another bullet the vri next day. . . . Cut I married nurse, and slip's a bit of good Im you bet! 1 got into the habit of ct: rying this about; most all the !!X carry a pocket piece of some kind f-luck f-luck whether they believe in luck 1 not." One man always carries a Im c -liar in an inside pocket by itself.-' that if bis spending pocket haft1'1 to get empty lie would not be getber destitute. There is another ; sews a $10 bill in the fob pocket every pair of trousers lie buys. I that way he can never have the t11 luck of forgetting to change bis n when lie changes l)is clothes. Tr he might have the bad luck to for: to remove it when h? sent the true ers to be pressed, but as lie V'-osophically V'-osophically expresses it that be good luck for the tailor. |