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vicissitudes and troubles. If dots are above it, it foretells good fortune, wealth and high respectability. Several stars denote so many good and happy children; but if surrounded by dashes, it shows that the children will cause you grief and vexation in your old age, and that you ought to prevent it by giving them a good education in time.
The Dog.
The dog being at all times the emblem of fidelity or envy, has also a two-fold meaning here. At the top, in the clear part, it signifies true and faithful friends; but, if surrounded with clouds and dashes, it shows that those whom you take for your friends are not to be depended on; but if the dog be at the bottom of the cup, you have to dread the effects of extreme envy or jealousy.
The Lily.
If the emblem of the lily be at the top, or in the middle of the cup, it signifies that the consulting party, either has, or will have, a virtuous spouse; if it be at the bottom of the cup, it denotes quite the reverse. In the clear part, the lily further betokens long life.
THE TRUE METHOD OF TELLING A PERSON’S FORTUNE BY CARDS.
TAKE a pack of cards, and pick six of each sort out, the Eight, Nine, Ten, Knave, King and Queen, these being the most prophetic cards in the pack. Let the person who wishes to have his or her fortune told be blindfolded. This done, let the cards which you have picked out be shuffled, and then dealt out singly on the table, with their faces downwards. The bandage being then taken of the eyes of the blindfolded person; he or she must take up one of the cards, then
