your second wife you
will have three children, who will all live--I see a funeral here
within a 6; it does not look like a friend or a relative, but it
is some acquaintance, or the friend of some acquaintance, or the
acquaintance of some friend--the funeral is within a 6, but it
does not come very near to you--you will go to a wedding within a
3, and you will receive a present of a ring within a 2, which
may be days--you will after this be very prosperous and happy, you
will be very long-lived--you will get a letter and a present from
the light-complexioned lady within a 9, which, as I said before,
it may be hours, which I think it is, though weeks it may be, or
months, or even years; though certainly within a 9, which, now I
look again, is days, yes, I am sure, certain, within a 9, a
letter and a present from the light-complexioned lady, a 9 it is
and days, within a 9, and days they are, at least, so it 'pears
to me."

Here ended the communication, and, on inquiring the price,
Johannes was astonished to learn that he had received but
twenty-five cents' worth. Regretting that he had not invested a
dollar in a commodity so "cheap and very filling at the price"
for future consumption, he departed, first taking a long
lingering look to find, if possible, the lurking-place of the
magic broomstick charger. He didn't see it, and gave it up, and
came away declaring that such a woman was not qualified to take
the social position his wife must assume. He did not, however,
wish to discourage her; he thought that the water-melon trade
might be comprehended by a lady of her abilities, or that she
could perhaps thoroughly master the pop-corn and molasses candy
business, and make it lucrative.

CHAPTER VI.

In which are narrated the Wonderful Workings of Madame Morrow,
the "Astonisher," of No. 76. Broome Street; and how, by a
Crinolinic Stratagem, the "Individual" got a Sight of his "Future
Husband."

CHAPTER VI.

MADAME MORROW, THE ASTONISHER, No. 76 BROOME STREET.

Madame Morrow is the only one of the fortune-telling fraternity
in New York who refuses to dispense her astrological favors to
both sexes. She positively declines receiving any visits from
"gentlemen," and confines her business attention exclusively to
"ladies," of whom many are her regular customers. One reason for
this course of conduct is, that she imagines her own sex to be
the more credulous, and more readily disposed to put faith in her
c