UNUSUAL METHODS OF TELLING
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This method ob\'iously requires the
full pack of fifty-two
which must be shuffled well and cut. The enquirer
must now choose three cards haphazard and without looking at them. These should be placed apart on the table.
The remaining forty-nine cards must now be re-shuffled
but not cut.
cards,
The diviner now begins
to build his square of sevens,
laying the cards face upwards on the table as
shown
in the
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diagram thus the first card forms the first in the top row,
but the second forms the second in the second row, and
so on down to the seventh, or extreme right-hand card of
the seventh row. When these have been carefully laid out,
the remaining cards must be re-shuffled and a further set
of six cards laid out, above the original seven and working
upwards instead of downwards these cards are marked
8 to 13 on our diagram. These must be taken from the
bottom of the pack. Once more shuffle and lay out the next
six cards, numbers 14 to 19, working downwards, and
taking them from the top of the pack once more. This
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process
is
repeated
till
the square
is
completed, being careful
to re-shuffle after each line of cards
the top of the pack
is
laid out, taking
when you have
downwards and from the bottom
from
to place the cards
of the
pack when you
build upwards.
You now have your complete square of sevens, and should
now reduce it to
consider the cards carefully, as you must
therefore, the
place
it
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row the rows counting downwards. Take,
extreme right-hand card of the top row and
three cards in a
upon the nearest card
If there are
of the
same
suit to its left.
other cards of the same suit you
now
place
two cards upon them, one by one, always working
but bear in mind that, whatever its suit may
to the left
be, the extreme left card must never be covered.
In this
way build all that suit upon each other, the original card
these
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