ull head just to see how the new
apparatus worked. Or, as if he'd been in a shower-bath of
good-nature, and come out dripping.

He also took kindly to that innocuous beverage, lager bier, which
was a good sign in itself, inasmuch as he had, for a few days,
been drinking as many varieties of strong drinks, as if he'd been
brought up on Professor Anderson's Inexhaustible Bottle, and had
never overcome the influences of his infant education.

Seeking out a friend to whom he confided his hopes of a lucrative
wife and a profitable progeny, the Cash Customer suggested that
they proceed immediately in search of the fair enchantress who
was to be his comfort and consolation, for the rest of his
respectable life.

Being somewhat disgusted with the result of his visit to the
witch with the romantic designation of the "Mysterious Veiled
Lady," he had determined to seek out one on this occasion with
the most common-place and every-day cognomen, in the whole list.
There being a Madame Widger in that delightful catalogue, of
course Widger was the one selected. It is true, she sometimes
advertised herself as the "Mysterious Spanish Lady," but in the
judgment of the Individual, the Widger was too much for the
Spanish and the mystery.

So Madame Widger was resolved on. Her modest advertisement is
given, that the impartial reader may be brought to acknowledge
that the inducements to wed the Widger were not of the common
order.

"MADAME WIDGER, the Natural-Gifted Astrologist,
Second-Sight Seer and Doctress, tells past, present,
and future events; love, courtship, marriage, absent
friends, sickness; prescribes medicines for all
diseases, property lost or stolen, at No. 3 First-av.,
near Houston-st."

The slight lack of perspicuity in this announcement seems to be a
mysterious peculiarity, common to all the Fortune Tellers, as if
they were all imbued with the same commendable contempt for all
the rules of English grammar.

The voyager being attired in a captivating costume, and being
also provided with pencils and paper to make a life-sketch, with
a view to an expansive portrait of his enslaver, whose beauty was
with him a foregone conclusion, set out with his faithful friend
for the delightful locality mentioned in the advertisement, where
the charming Circe, Widger, held her magic court.

He was not aware, at that time, that his intended bride was not a
blushing blooming maiden, but an ancient d