CARD FORTUNE TELLING
104
—Change of trade or profession reversed,
only a distant one.
Four Nines. — A great surprise reversed, a public dinner.
Three Nines. —Joy, fortune, health
reversed, wealth
by imprudence in marriage.
Two Nines. —A
gain
reversed,
losses at
cards.
Four Eights. —A short journey reversed, the return of
Two
Tens.
;
denotes that the prospect
is
;
;
lost
little
trifling
;
;
a friend or relative.
Three Eights.
—Thoughts
of marriage
;
reversed, folly,
flirtation.
Two
Eights.
pleasures
and
—A
brief
love-dream
reversed,
;
small
trifling pains.
Four Sevens.
— Intrigues among servants or low
people,
and disputes reversed, that their malice
will be impotent to harm, and that the punishment will
fall on themselves.
threats, snares,
;
— Sickness, premature old
Two Sevens. — Levity reversed, regret.
Three Sevens.
slight
and
age
;
reversed,
brief indisposition.
;
Any
picture-card between two others of equal value
—
two Tens, two Aces, etc. denotes that the person
represented by that card runs the risk of a prison.
It requires no great effort to commit these significations
to memory, but it must be remembered that they are but
what the alphabet is to the printed book a little attention
and practice, however, will soon enable the learner to form
these mystic letters into words, and words into phrases, in
other language, to assemble these cards together and read
the events, past and to come, their pictTired faces pretend
as
;
to reveal.
There are several ways of doing this
but we will give
them all, so as to afford our readers an ample choice of
methods of prjdng into futurity.
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