ROBERT RAWLINSON.

_School Superstitions._--Several appear to exist in schools from

generation to generation: do they exist anywhere else? and whence their

origin? For instance "a boy who could not span his own wrist was a

bastard;" "if you said the Lords Prayer backwards, the devil would come

up," &c.

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