ld sweat to do it.
Johannes, who has friends in Minnesota, and whose questions were
therefore all in good faith, tried to get the sleeping female to
descend a little more to particulars, to describe individuals or
localities minutely enough to be recognised if the descriptions
approached the truth; but Mrs. Seymour was not to be caught in
this manner. She invariably dodged the question, and dealt only
in the most vague and uncertain generalities--giving no
description of persons or things that might not have applied with
equal accuracy to a hundred other persons or things in that or
any other locality. Her assertions concerning the persons
supposed to be her customer's friends did not approach the truth
in any one particular; nor was there the slightest shadow of even
probability in any single statement she uttered. She is not,
however, a woman to lack customers, so long as there remain in
the world fools of either sex.

When the inquirer had concluded his questioning, he was somewhat
at a loss how to awake the woman from her trance, but she solved
that little difficulty herself by opening her eyes (as if she had
been wide awake all the time) and calling for the beauteous
maiden of the snarly hair, who accordingly appeared and made a
few mysterious mesmeric passes lengthwise of her sleeping
mistress, and awoke her to the necessity of dunning her visitor,
which she did instantly and with a relish. He paid the demanded
dollar and departed.

CHAPTER X.

Describes Madame Carzo, the Brazilian Astrologist, of No. 151
Bowery, and gives all the romantic adventures of the "Individual"
with that gay South American Naiad.

CHAPTER X.

MADAME CARZO, THE BRAZILIAN ASTROLOGIST, No. 151 BOWERY.

The illustrious lady who is the subject of the present chapter,
came to the city of New York in 1856, and at once took lodgings
and began business in the fortune-telling way. She did well,
pecuniarily speaking, for a time, but the details of a visit to
her having been published at length in one of the daily journals,
she at once retired from the business, and subsided into private
life. She is not now extant as a witch, and it is not impossible
that she is earning an honester living in other ways.

The newspaper article that convinced her of the error of her
ways, and induced her to give up fortune-telling, is the
subjoined chapter by the "Individual:"

He meets a Yankee-Brazilian. She is not ill-looking, etc.

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