bore thad you do of her,--you
have already saw her id the course of your life, and she loves
you very buch. There are people about you id your busidess who
are dot so buch your friends as they preted to be--you are goidg
to bake sub chadge id your busidess, it will be a good thidg for
you add will cub out buch better thad you expect."

Here she stopped and intimated that she would answer any
questions that her customer desired to ask, and in reply to his
interrogatories the following important information was elicited:

"You will be lodg lived, add you will have two wives, add will
live beddy years with your first wife."

The "Individual" proclaimed himself satisfied, and paid his
money, whereupon Madame Bruce instantly yelled "Pete," when the
Eye-Boy reappeared to show the door, and the Cash Customer
departed, leaving the Mysterious Veiled Lady shivering on her
stool, and exceedingly desirous of an opportunity to use her
pocket-handkerchief.

And this is all there was of the Persian Princess. As the seeker
after wisdom went away he made one single audible remark by way
of consoling himself for his crushed hopes and blighted anonymous
love. It was to this effect. "I believe she squints, and I _know_
she's got bad teeth."

CHAPTER IV.

Relates the marvellous performances of Madame Widger, of No. 3,
First Avenue, and how she looks into the future through a
Paving-Stone.

CHAPTER IV.

MADAME WIDGER, No. 3 FIRST AVENUE.

Madame Widger came from Albany to this city about four years ago,
and at once set up as an "Astrologer." She has been a "witch" for
a great many years, and has, directly and indirectly, done about
as much mischief as it is possible for one person to accomplish
in the same length of time. She was a woman of great repute in
and about Albany, as a fortune-teller, and was supposed to be
conversant with practices more criminal. She at last became so
well known as a bad woman, that she found it advisable to leave
Albany, after she had settled certain lawsuits in which she had
become entangled.

Among other speculations of hers, in that place, she once sued
the city to recover indemnifying moneys for certain imaginary
damages, alleged to have been done to her property by the
unbidden entrance of the river into her private apartments,
during one of the periodical inundations with which Albany is
favored. By the shrewd management of certain of her lawyer
friends with whom she had busin