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4THE GOLDEN FORTUNE-TELLER The Roads, or superfine lines, indicatoindicate [sic] ways; if they are covered with clouds, and in the thick, they are marks of past or future reverses; but if they appear elearclear [sic] or serene, they denotodenote [sic] somosome [sic] fortunate change near at hand; encompassed with, many points or dots, they signify an accidental gain of money, likewise long life.

The Ring signifies marriage; if a letter near it, it denotes to the person that has his fortunofortune [sic] told the initial of the name of the person to be married. If the ring is in the clear, it portends happy and lucrativolucrative [sic] friendship. Surrounded with clouds, denotes that the party is to use precaution in the friendship hohe [sic] is about to contract, lest hohe [sic] should bobe [sic] insidiously deceived; but is most inauspicious if the ring appear at thothe [sic] bottom of thothe [sic] eupcup [sic], as it forbodes the entire separation from a beloved object.

A Leaf of Clover is, as well herohere [sic] as in common lifolife [sic], a lucky sign; its positions in the eupcup [sic] alonoalone [sic] make thothe [sic] difference; if it is on the top, it shows that good fortuntofortune [sic] is not far distant; but it is subject to delay if it is in the middle, or at thothe [sic] bottom. Should clouds surround it, many things disagreeable will attend thothe [sic] good fortune; in thothe [sic] clear, it prognosticates undisturbed happiness.

The Anchor, thothe [sic] emblem of hope and commerce, implies successful business carried on by water and land, if on thothe [sic] bottom of thothe [sic] cup; at the top, and in a clear part, it shows eonstantconstant [sic] love, and unshaken fidelity. In thick and clouded parts it also denotes love, but tinctured with thothe [sic] inconstancy of thothe [sic] butterfly.

The Serpent, always the emblem of falsehood and enmity, is herohere [sic] a general sign of an enemy. On the top, or in the middle of the cup, it promises to the consulting party thothe [sic] triumph which hohe [sic] desires over his enemy: but he will not obtain it so