FORTUNE-TELLING,

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 203, 21 December 1871, Page 6

FORTUNE-TELLING,

Her first question was put in a slow, distinct, cablastic way, looking the pursuer of knowledge under difficulties square in the eyes : " Namkypotswapseataooliiidumbkikelzivoc'umboldGat ajamdaal tikiki ? " Trembling in every limb, the subject of these investigations replied, "that he thought, under circumstances, he, she, or it, might, mutatis mutandis, Erin Go Bragh, for instance — would leave a doubt in the mind, which nothing but the most proximate propinquity and remote rotundity could rotate." After a slight pause No. 2 said she really thought so herself. Gazing steadily into the deepdrawn lines of the palm, she said : " Thou art 35 years old." "I art not by several," said the seeker after truth. "Thou dost not understand me," said she, with embarrassed air. "Do you suppose the sublime science of clairvoyance deals with sordid clay 1 Mentality men, mentality — spirituality — I mean that in the mental and spiritual nature as distinguished from the physical, thou art thirty-five — no more — no less," she added, shaking up the bottled human flesh (like Gen. Butlpr at Fort Fisher), and casting her eyes to the ceiling. A pickled human hand, and the stars ! Who could dispute such authority 1 " Thou art single, ai-t thou not '? " Too timid to reply directly in the negative, the fortune-seeker mildly suggested that he would r«fer the question to his wife and innocent babes thut night. " Wife and babes," retorted the revealer of secrets witli a sneer; "wife and babes, ha? Knowest thou that I refer to the spiritual — the mental ? Yes, young man, thy heart is unwedded ; thy heart mentally is unmarried. It is only thy corporeal frauie." " But I have only. been so for teu months," said he. " Rogue — rogue " — stormed the thrice-caught revealer of hidden things — ''then how dost thou say babes'?" "Twins!" ejaculated he. She laid her hand across her brow, and pondered.' She turned i in her chair; she was completely nonplussed. She asked to be excused from a further insight into the future that day. The elements had been disturbed, she feared, by sjme undiscovered comet. The magnetism of the air was"' jangled, out of tune, and harsh." She hoped he would call again when electricity and the fates were in sublimer rapport. — " Louisville Journal."