FORTUNE TELLING.
Some time ago two young ladies near Newmarket met a gipsy woman, who, for a trfling sum, proposed to show them the faces of their future husbands in a pail of water. The water being* procured, they were desired to look into it. They did so, when discovering nothing strange, they exclaimed: “ We see only our own faces.” “Well,” replied the gipsy, “they will be your husband’s faces wdien you are married.” The young ladies on hearing this moved off, not a little disappointed.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 7
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86FORTUNE TELLING. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 7
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