ering hastily ran over in his mind the various ways in which
one-handed people get a living; then she relented and did not
deprive him of that useful member, but said:

"You have goot hand, vera goot hand--your hand gifs you goot
fortoon. You was born under goot blanet, vera nice blanet, you
have vera nice fortoon. You have mooch rich, vera great monish;
you haf seen drubbles, (trouble) vera mooch drubbles--more
drubbles you haf seen, as you will see some more--dat is, you
shall not have so many drubbles py and py as you haf had long
ago, for you haf goot blanet. You will journeys make mooch in
footoor (future) years. You will have two wifes and mooch kindes
(children) in der footoor years, and you will be vera mooch happy
und bleasant mit der wife vot you shall have der first dime, but
not so mooch happy und bleasant mit der wife vot you shall have
der two time, but you shall vera mooch monish have in der fortoor
years."

She then released the hand of her visitor, who was very glad to
get it back again, and took up a pack of cards, which she
manipulated in the customary style, and then said:

"Your carts run vera nice; you have goot carts; here is a
shentleman's as ish vera goot to you, he is great friends mit
you: here is a letter vot you shall be come to you right avays
vera soon--it ish goot news to you; you must do joost vot das
letter says. Here ish a brown girls vot lofs (loves) you vera
mooch, but you do not lofs dat girls, so much as das girls lofs
you--you will not be der vife of das girl, for there is anunther
girls vot you lofs bretty bad und you will marry her; she is
bretty goot girls und you will be happy, you will hof lots of
kindes mit das girls. Das girls haf a man now vos lof her vera
mooch--he is was you call das soldier; he lofs her mooch but he
shall not hof her, you shall hof das girls. Here is great man was
will be good friend to you; he ish vera great man, a big king;
not vas you call der koenig, but your big mans, your, vos is das,
your bresident--de bresident bees goot friends mit you--here is
dark mans, he ish no goot friend mit you, und you must keep away
from das dark mans."

This was all the information she appeared to derive from this
pack, which were ordinary playing cards, so she laid them aside
and took up the regular fortune-telling cards, which are covered
with various mysterious devices. These did not seem to communicate
anything of very special importance in addition to what