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Parsnips

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Parsnips · Heading 1492; source lines 16924–16929 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.

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