t his eyes. He can tell fortunes, discover hidden
wealth to any amount, and create such love between sweethearts as will
be sure to end in matrimony. He is complete master of the fairies,
and has the whole generation of them under his thumb; and he generally
travels with the king of the fairies in his left pocket closed up in a
snuffbox. He interprets dreams and visions, and is never mistaken; can
foretell whether a child unborn will be a boy or a girl, and can also
inform the parents whether it will be brought to the bench or the
gallows. He can also foretell backwards, and disclose to the individual
anything that shall happen to him or her for the last seven years. His
philters, concocted upon the profound science of alchemistic philosophy,
have been sought for by persons of the highest distinction, who have
always found them to produce the very effects for which they were
intended, to wit, mutual affection between the parties, uniformly ending
in matrimony and happiness. Devils expelled, ghosts and spirits laid on
the shortest notice, and at the most moderate terms. Also, recipes to
farmers for good weather or rain, according as they may be wanted.

"(Signed,) Her Zander VANDERPLUCKEM,"

"The Greatest Conjurer, Astrologer, and Doctor in the world."

To describe the effect that this bill, which, by the way, was posted
against every dead wall in the town, had upon the people, would be
impossible. The inn in which he stopped was, in a short time, crowded
with applicants, either for relief or information, according as their
ills or wishes came under the respective heads of his advertisement. The
room he occupied was upstairs, and he had a door that led into a smaller
one, or kind of closet, at the end of it; here sat an old-looking man,
dressed in a black coat, black breeches, and black stockings; the very
picture of the mysterious individual who had appeared and disappeared so
suddenly at the bonfire. He had on a full-bottomed wig, and a long white
beard, depending from the lower part of his face, swept his reverend
breast. A large book lay open before him, on the pages of which were
inscribed cabalistic characters and strange figures. He only admitted
those who wished to consult him, singly; for on no occasion did he ever
permit two persons at a time to approach him. All the paraphernalia of
astrology were exposed upon the same table, at one end of which he sat
in an arm-chair, awaiting the commencement of operations.