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 MOTHER BUNCH’S GOLDEN FORTUNE-TELLER.

THE ART OF TELLING FORTUNES BY THE GROUNDS OF TEA OR COFFEE.

Pour the grounds of tea or coffee into a white cup, shake them well about in it, so that their particles may cevercover [sic] the surfaeosurface [sic] of the wholowhole [sic] cup; then reverse it into the saucer, that all the superfluous parts may be drained, and the figures required for fortune-telling bobe [sic] fermedformed [sic]. The person that acts the fortune-teller must always bend his thoughts upon him or her that wish to have their fortunofortune [sic] told, and upon their rank and profession, in order to give plausibility to their predictions. It is not to be expected, upon taking up the cup, that the figures will be accurately represented; but the meremore [sic] fertile the fancy shall be of the person inspecting the cup, the more he will discover in it. In this amusement, each must himself be a judge under what circumstances he is to make changes in point of time, speaking just as it suits, in the present, the past, and thothe [sic] future.