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THE GOLDEN FORTUNE-TELLER
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bo a bachelor, you will certainly be married within the year.

On any Friday throug out the year, tako rosemary, flowers, bay leaves, thyme, and sweet marjoram, of each a handful; dry these and make them into fine powder; then take a tea-spoonful of each sort, mix tho whole together, then take twico the quantity of barley-flower, and mix the whole into a cake, with the milk of a red cow: this cake is not to be baked, but wrapped in elear writing-paper, and laid under your head any Friday night. If tho person dream of music, sho will shortly wed him sho wishes; if she dream of fire, she will be crossed in love; if of a church, she will die single. If any thing be written, or there be the least spot on the paper, it will not do.

Any unmarried woman fasting on Midsummer Eve, and at midnight laying a elean cloth, with bread, eheese, and ale, and sitting down as if going to eat, the street door being left open, the person whom she is afterwards to marry will come into the room, and drink to her by bowing; and after filling the glass, will leave it on the table, make another bow, and retire.

To know what Fortune your future Husband shall have.—Take a walnut, a hazel-nut, and a nutmeg, grate them together, and mix them with butter and sugar, and make them into small pills, of whieh exaetly nine must be taken on going to bed, and aecording to your dreams so will be the stato of the person you will marry. If a gentleman, of riches; if a elergyman, of white linen; if a lawyer, of darkness; if a tradesman, of odd noises and tumults; if a soldier or sailor, of thunder and lightning; if a servant, of rain.

To see a future Spouse in a Dream, by charming the Moon.—At the first appearance of the new moon. immediately after new-year’s day, go out in