Note 41 — Chapter II · Local Customs—Civic, Aquatic, Ceremonial.

Editor’s Note.—This superstition still continues, and was told me in 1896 by Mrs. Le Patourel and others. The doomed baby is supposed to be the one christened second, or the middle one, and you still hear women say when their child has been christened with two others, “Oh, but mine was an end one.”