_Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take an Oath_ (Vol. iv., p. 151.).--I beg
to inform COWGILL that Irishwomen of the lower order almost invariably
refuse to be sworn while pregnant. Having frequently had to administer
oaths to heads of families applying for relief during the famine in
Ireland in 1847-8-9, I can speak with certainty as to the fact, though I
am unable to account for the origin of the superstition.