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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

COLOURS.

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COLOURS.

Colour-superstitions, though rapidly disappearing, still obtain in the remote rural districts. The following lines were obtained from the East of England:

Blue is true,

Yellow's jealous,

Green's forsaken,

Red's brazen,

White is love,

And black is death!

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