SOME ENGLISH METHODS OF TELLING
together, bearing in
mind
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that the card from the right
is
always the more powerfuh
Suppose we take the Eight
of Spades from the right and the Seven of Clubs from the
left,
we
find that a slight illness or accident will result
in the receiving of a small
hand,
if
Eight of Spades from the
different
sum
of
money.
On
the other
the Seven of Clubs comes from the right and the
—that
left,
the meaning will be quite
the receipt of a small
sum
money
of
will
result in a slight illness or accident.
In this way all the cards but one are paired oft, leaving
the " Surprise " card alone, and the reading of this card
will affect everything else.
There is another way of working this arrangement,
which is only slightly different. The pack having been
shuffled and cut into three heaps, the performer takes up
the centre heap and removes the bottom card, i.e. the
card that
is
face uppermost.
This
is
placed on the table
card of the required row for determining the
decrees of Fate. The last cut heap is then similarly dealt
as the
first
bottom card being placed second in the row
and the remainder placed on top of the centre heap, as
with, the
method. So again with the
on top of the pack.
in the first
originally
The cards are now
highest of each three
first
cut heap,
dealt in threes as before, but the
is
chosen quite irrespective of
suit.
For instance, should you turn up the Seven of Hearts,
the Ace of Clubs, and the Jack of Hearts, the Ace would
be chosen in this system, whereas the Jack would have
been selected under the original method. If three cards
of equal value or three cards all of the
same
suit
should
appear, all three are added to the row, the card face
uppermost being added first, and so on.
Go on in this way till there are only two cards left in
your hand, ignoring of course all those thrown away as