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 MOTHER HUBBARD'S

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

To pour out the Tea or Coffee Grounds.

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