_Unlucky to sell eggs after Sunset._--The following paragraph is extracted
from the _Stamford Mercury_ of October 29, 1852:
"There exists a species of superstition in north Nottinghamshire
against letting eggs go out of a house after sunset. The other day a
person in want of some eggs called at a farm-house in East Markham, and
inquired of the good woman of the house whether she had any eggs to
sell, to which she replied that she had a few scores to dispose of.
'Then I'll take them home {8} with me in the cart,' was his answer; to
which she somewhat indignantly replied, 'That you'll not; don't you
know the sun has gone down? You are welcome to the eggs at a proper
hour of the day; but I would not let them go out of the house after the
sun is set on any consideration whatever!'"