SOME ENGLISH METHODS OF TELLING
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Heart Suit.
Two.
—Success, but
—Thoughts —
Jack.
it
will
this
need care.
card appears
next
the
Heart
King.
Cluh Suit.
Four.
—Be careful of changes in plans.
—A warning against speculation.
Eight.
Diamond
Four.
Suit.
—Trouble through friends —
this
card also appears
this
also touches the
next the Heart King.
Spade
Suit.
Five.
—^Temper
and quarrelHng
—
enquirer's personal card.
King.
—Obviously the dangerous
In this
way
prediction,
we
also
which
friend.
is
get a startling confirmation of our
taken from actual experience and
has proved correct.
The method of Card Divination that we have just
is known as the English
not because it origi-
—
described
it
from the many
methods where only thirty-two cards are
will now give some English methods based on
nated over here, but to distinguish
continental
used.
We
the Piquet pack, of thirty-two cards, as used on the
Continent.
The thirty-two cards are those used for an ordinary
you throw out all the lower value cards
from Two to Six, both inclusive. The cards, therefore,
run from the Seven to the Ace. The meanings of the
cards necessarily vary from those of the Enghsh method,
and we therefore give them in full. The Kings, Queens,
and Jacks, represent people and thoughts as in the English
Piquet game
method.
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