FOLK LORE - OMENS FROM CATTLE

I forward to you a *Note*, which, many years ago, I inserted in my interleaved Brand's *Observations on Popular Antiquities*, vol. ii. p. 519. 4to., in the hope that, as the subject interested me *then*, it may not prove uninteresting to some now:— "A bad omen seems to be drawn from *an ox or cow breaking into a garden*. Though I laugh at the superstition, the omen was painfully fulfilled in my case. "About the middle of March, 1843, some cattle were driven close to my house; and, the back door being open, *three* got into our little bit of garden, and trampled it. When our school-drudge came…