Witchcraft: or The art of fortune-telling unveiled: from the low ambition of the celebrated Mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer. . hinery. 1 felt at their wantof tafte, or rather their want of judgment,that I exclaimed, (addreiTing myfelf to theproprietor, in an audible voice, loud enoughto be heard by the whole company,) Whatcan this mean fir ? I would for my Imgle felffooner give a half-crown, (being the price ofadmiHion) to have the pleafure of feeing yourflute-player lift one of his fingers, than pur-chafe the whole o
Witchcraft: or The art of fortune-telling unveiled: from the low ambition of the celebrated Mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer. . hinery. 1 felt at their wantof tafte, or rather their want of judgment,that I exclaimed, (addreiTing myfelf to theproprietor, in an audible voice, loud enoughto be heard by the whole company,) Whatcan this mean fir ? I would for my Imgle felffooner give a half-crown, (being the price ofadmiHion) to have the pleafure of feeing yourflute-player lift one of his fingers, than pur-chafe the whole of this figure fo P4uch ex-tolled at the fame price. What! advanced,you may eafily conceive, met the approbationof the proprietor who knew the greatnefs ofthe one and the littlenefs of the other. .[hecompany liared in my face, as if rail: roafedfrom, a lethargy. 1 hey then retired to thatD 2 42 WITCHCRAFT. end of the hall where the llute-player was fta^tioned, and his wonderful performances lookup their chief attention the remainder of that evening. In my next I will make you acquaintedwith the method by which the automaton wasmade to reluminate his candles. Till then adieu,. W. F. LETTER XIIL; [In continuation.] From to J. B, IS1R, Having in my lad promifed io give yonthe principles of the wonderful Turk or relu-minating Automaton, conformably to thatpromife, I now proceed. In the firfc place hisbringing the caadle to his mouth in order to WITCHCRAFT. 43 rcenllghten it, you will readily conceive muftbe efFeded by machinery. And could thismachinery be adluated and regulated by noother means but the proprietors extinguifh-ing the candles, either right or left, it wouldindeed be infinitely- curious, and more than Icould explain, were 1 furnifhed with the con-ception of an Oedipus.* Butthe extingnifh-ing of the candle not being the influentialcaufe of his bringing it to his mouth, I felt atno lofs in determining by what means his armswere made to move, and from whence he
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