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20 is prudent and polite, and of great courage. A big at the end, shows a person to be of a peaceable disposition, industrious, and faithful, and of a  understanding,

Mouth.—A great and wide mouth shows a man be bold, a great liar, and a great talker and eater. little mouth shows the person to bobe [sic] of a quiet, tompertemper [sic], sccretsecret [sic], modest, and bountiful.

Lips.—The lips, when they are very big and blubbering, show a person to be credulous, foolish, and apt to be enticed to any thing. Lips of a size denotes a person to be discreet, of a ready wit but somosome [sic] what hasty. To havohave [sic] one lip bigger than thothe [sic] other, denotes the party to bobe [sic] of a dull, sluggish temper, and much addicted to folly.

Voice.—A great and full voice, in either soxsex [sic], shows them to be of a great spirit, confident, proud, and wilful. A faint and weak voice shows a person of a good understanding, nimblonimble [sic] fancy, a littlolittle [sic] eater, but weak of body and timorous. A loud shrill voice denotes one sagacious and ingenious, but capricious, vainglorious, and too credulous. A weak, trembling voice, denotes one to bobe [sic] envious, suspicious, slow in business, and fearful. A loud, shrill, and unpleasant voice, signifies onoone [sic] bold and valiant, but quarrelsome. A voicovoice [sic] beginning low, or in the bass, and ending high in thothe [sic] treble, denotes a person to be violent, angry, bold, secure.

Chin.—A thick and full chin shows a man inclined to peacopeace [sic], honest, but slow of invention. A poakedpeaked [sic] chin, reasonably full of flesh, shows a good understanding, a high spirit. and laudable of conversation. A double chin shows a man of peaceable disposition, but of dull apprehension, vain, credulous, and secrotsecret [sic] in his actions.

Ears.—Great and thick ears are certain signs of a foolish person; but small and thin ears show a person