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visitor was considered a terrible sign. It was all right, she said, to have women visit after the first visitor had come. This was no doubt an English custom and Mrs. Fred Welty, who was raised in Derbyshire, England, said that she observed a very practical tradition to prevent this bad luck. As soon as the clock struck midnight a dark-haired man in the party was sent out and came back in the door as the first visitor. This man always carried a piece of coal for further good luck, Mrs. Welty said.
—In other communities the women stayed at home while the men made the rounds of all their friends to sample eggnog and punch. This visitatiop was considered a serious obligation for bachelors especially, and the unmarried young man
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