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up ~nd said, ‘6h114, you ought not ~ done tia t cause it‘8 a ai~ of death. ‚ *ho

nuff the same night I lost another ohild~ that iuz eighb yeers old. The child had beait trouble, I think.‘~

	Mrs. Avery believes in luck to a certain xt~t. The followtbg are examples of how you m~ obtain luck:

	“I believe you can change youi‘ luck by tbrowing a teaspoontul or sulphur in

	the fire at zackly 12 o‘ clock in the diy, I know last week I was sitting here without a bit ot fire, but I wuzn‘t thinking bout doing that till a ‘orna cams ~ .. by and told me ter scrape up a stick fire and put a spoonful of sulphur bu it;

and sho nuff in a hour‘ s tims a. coel n~n oeme by and gave nie a tub uv coal. Long time ago I used ter work ~ some white ~men and every d~y at 12 o ‚ clock I wuz told ter put a teaspoonful of sulphur in the fire.“

	“Inôther thixig, I sho ain‘t going ter let a ‘cinan come in my house on Mon~y morning uni. es a a n~n doue come in there tust • No ‚ aurres, 1~ it seem lak one am ‘t coming soon, I‘ll call one of the boy chilluna ‚ jest so it is a x~le. The reason fer this is oause iomen le bad luck.“

	The following are a te~ of the~ luck charms as dscribed by L~‘a . Avery:

	“Blacic cat bone is taken from a eat. First, the sat is killed and boiled ‚

	which the msat is scraped from the bones. The bones are then taken to the

	end thrown in. The bone that goes up stream is the lucky bone and is the one tnat should be kept.“ “There is a boy in this neiůborhood that sells liquor and I Ioiow they done locked him t~ ten or twelve tines but ~ he alwqe git out. They say he carries a black cat bois,“ related Mrs. Avery.

	“The Devil‘s shoe string looks jest like a tern with a lot of roots. ~ mother u8ed to grow them in the oo~rner of our gardei. They are i.uc~.

“Majr•I (?) are always oarrThd. tied ~* the corner of a 1~and1cerehiet. I don‘t
know how they make ‘em.