day, and can
easily verify what is herein written.

With these remarks as to the intention of this book, the reader
is referred by the Cash Customer to the succeeding chapters for
further information. And the public will find in the advertisements,
appended to the name and number of each mysteriously gifted lady,
the pleasing assurance that she will be happy to see, not only
the Cash Customer of the present writing, but also any and all
other customers, equally cash, who are willing to pay the
customary cash tribute.

CHAPTER II.

Is devoted to the glorification of Madame Prewster of No. 373
Bowery, the Pioneer Witch of New York. The "Individual" also
herein bears his testimony that she is oily and water-proof.

CHAPTER II.

MADAME PREWSTER, No. 373 BOWERY.

This woman is one of the most dangerous of all those in the city
who are engaged in the swindling trade of Fortune Telling, and
has been professionally known to the police and the public of New
York for about fourteen years. The amount of evil she has
accomplished in that time is incalculable, for she has been by no
means idle, nor has she confined her attention even to what
mischief she could work by the exercise of her pretended magic,
but if the authenticity of the records may be relied on, she has
borne a principal part in other illicit transactions of a much
more criminal nature. She has been engaged in the "Witch"
business in this city for more years than has any other one whose
name is now advertised to the public.

If the history of her past life could be published, it would
astound even this community, which is not wont to be startled out
of its propriety by criminal development, for if justice were
done, Madame Prewster would be at this time serving the State in
the Penitentiary for her past misdoings; but, in some of these
affairs of hers, men of so much _respectability_ and political
influence have been implicated, that, having sure reliance on
their counsel and assistance, the Madame may be regarded as
secure from punishment, even should any of her many victims
choose to bring her into court.

The quality of her Witchcraft, by which she ostensibly lives, and
the amount of faith to be reposed in her mystic predictions, may
be seen from the history of a visit to her domicile, which is
hereunto appended in the very words of the "Individual" who made
it.

The "Cash Customer" makes his first Voyage in a Shower,
but en