CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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No.
You now
which, as
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2.
Dealing the Cards by Sevens
shuffle the
pack
of thirty-two selected cards,
before stated, consist of the Ace, King, Queen,
Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven, of each suit
cut them yourself, or, if acting for another person,
person cut them, taking care to use the
left
—either
let
hand.
that
Then
count seven cards, beginning with the one lying on the top
of the pack. The first six are useless, so put them aside,
and retain only the seventh, which is to be placed face
uppermost on the table before you. Repeat this three
times more, then shuffle and cut the cards you have thrown
on one side, together with those remaining in your hand,
and tell them out in sevens as before, until you have thus
obtained twelve cards.
It
however, indispensable that
is being told
is,
the one representing the person whose fortune
should be among the number
;
therefore, the
whole opera-
must be recommenced in case of it not having made
its appearance.
Your twelve cards being now spread out
before you in the order in which they have come to hand,
you may begin to explain them as described in the manner
of dealing the cards in threes, always bearing in mind both
their individual and relative signification. Thus, you first
tion
count the cards by sevens, beginning with the one representing the person for whom you are acting, going from
right to left. Then take the two cards at either extremity
and unite them, and afterwards
form the three heaps or packs and " the Surprise " preIndeed, the only
cisely as we have before described.
difference between the two methods is the manner in which,
of the line or half-circle,
the cards are obtained.