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14 the good fortune is not far distant; but it is subject to delay, if it is in the middle, or at the bottom. Should clouds surround it, it shews that many disagreeables will attend the good fortune; in the clear, prognosticates serene and undisturbed happiness, as bright as the party wishes.

The Anchor,

The emblem of hope and commerce, implies successful business carried on by water and by land, on the bottom of the cup; at the top, and in the clear part, is shews constant love, and an unshaken fidelity. In the thick and clouded part of it also denotes love, but tinctured with the inconstancy of the butterfly.

The Serpent,

Always the emblem of falsehood and enmity, likewise here a general sign of an enemy. On the top, or in the middle of the cup, it promises to the consulting party the triumph which he desires over his enemy: but he will not obtain it so easily if the serpent be in the thick or cloudy thick. By the letter which frequently appears near the emblem the enemy may easily be guessed, it makes the initial of his name.

The Letter.

By letters, we communicate to our friends either pleasant or unpleasant news, and such is the case here: if this emblem is in the clear part it denotes the speedy arrival of welcome news; surrounded with dots, it announces the arrival of a considerable remittance in money: but hemmed in by clouds it is quite the contrary, and forebodes some melancholy or, bad tidings, a loss, or some other sinister accident.

The Coffin,

The emblem of death, prognosticates the same thing here, or at least a long and tedious illness if it be in the thick or turbid. In the clear, it denotes long life. In the thick, at the top of the cup,