UNUSUAL METHODS OF TELLING
The pack must be
row.
and
well shuffled
rebuilt as already described.
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and cut into three
Then, beginning with
the top card, form your rows, taking care that the suit
that
first
appears
is
placed to form the top row, and so
\nth each of the others. Go on la^dng out the cards like
this until you reach either the type card representing the
or the
or the Wish card, the Nine of Hearts
Disappointment card, the Nine of Spades. Whichever of
these three cards appears first is added to the proper row,
and this part is now complete, the remainder of the pack
enquirer
;
;
being discarded as useless.
Your reading
now
is
given by the general appearance of
the cards on the table, and depends very largely upon your
experience and judgment
—you must note carefully which
card was the last added, because
Spades,
it
if
this
was the Nine
You must
fatally affects everything.
guided by the order of the suits as they
lie
of
also be
on the table
row being most powerful and also the nearest in
point of time. The meaning of each row should be read
the top
separately.
The Fateful Twenty-one Cards
The pack
cut with the
left
hand.
The
must be
well shuffled
and
di\dner then takes off the
first
of thirty-two cards
eleven cards, from the top of the pack, and places
them
on one side. From the remaining twenty-one cards he takes
the uppermost and places it, still face downwards, on the
table.
The
diviner
must now
satisfy himself that the type card
is among the twenty cards in his
pack must be gathered together
once more, re-shuffled and cut, and the proceedings begun
representing the enquirer
hand, otherwise the
all
over again,
twenty.
till
full
this essential card
is
among
the fateful