CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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and
distribute twenty-one cards, thus covering all the three
lower rows.
This leaves only three cards in hand, so
whatever happens you cannot go further, and would have
to read the cards as they lie, with only one personal card
to guide you, unless the second has now been exposed.
But in most cases, when one personal card is exposed in
the top row, its companion will appear during this second
delivery of the cards.
Now suppose the one personal card is shown in the
second row of the original lay-out. You now start covering,
a fresh card from the unused portion of the pack
on to the first card of the third row, and continue to the
end of the square. This means the addition of fourteen
b}' placing
cards, but
It
is
now
still
leaves only twenty-eight cards exposed.
quite probable that the second personal card will
be visible, in which case your preparation
is
complete,
and you read the cards as we shall explain.
But if by chance the second personal card is not then
shown, you are allowed a third attempt. But you must
be careful to remember that you only have ten cards in
hand now, and you must cover whole rows at a time or
none at
first
all.
So
in this case, instead of starting
with the
card of the third row, you leave that row intact, and
place a fresh card on the
first
place in the bottom row.
This again leaves you with three cards in hand, and you
proceed to your divination, as before explained, whether
the second personal card
is
exposed or not.
is in the third row of
you can of course only recover the
bottom row, which you proceed to do. When you have
added seven cards, see if the second personal card is now
exposed if it is, you stop and give your reading. If not,
3'ou deal out seven more cards and again examine them.
Obviously you can do this three times, when you have only
If
the one exposed personal card
the original square
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