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. . their defired place,put on the other rabbet as neatly as poiTible,and your iland k compleat. Exhibit it as loUlows :-—Having proviJed thre;^ geiitleriieuwith a clean pen each and paper, obierve, thatthey will greatly oblige you by their writinga word or icntiment on ihat paper. 1 heywill no doubt remark they have no ink ; thenpreient your (land, and with un-derneath the fame, you may fecretly t
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. . their defired place,put on the other rabbet as neatly as poiTible,and your iland k compleat. Exhibit it as loUlows :-—Having proviJed thre;^ geiitleriieuwith a clean pen each and paper, obierve, thatthey will greatly oblige you by their writinga word or icntiment on ihat paper. 1 heywill no doubt remark they have no ink ; thenpreient your (land, and with un-derneath the fame, you may fecretly turn thebottom ib as lo fliiit unicen which of the inksyou pleafe under the tube at top, in whichthevDlace their pens, confequemiy you will WITCHCRAFT. 85 oblige them to partake of the three differentinks. When the writing is exhibited thewonder arifes in their minds how this couldbe pollible, feeing they ail three filled theirpens from the fame fountain. In cafe of aclofe examination of the ftand, a fpiing mightbe conftruded fo as to prevelit the bottomfrom being turned by any one but to have cotton in your cups or theink will not be fafe. 3d. The curious This padlock is made for the purpofe ofbeing faflened on the cheek, and the curiofitvdepends altogether on the dexterity with whichit 13 there placed, and if well done it feMoinfails creating univerlai laughter. This lock13 made as follows : It is fhaped like the roin-mon padlock ; the bow muft be made fo o^-uand ftut in the centre/cheonehalf imraov^abrethe other to play as in other locks, wi^h ^^h-addition of a ipring only ; this iprino- in thebox of the lock, keeps this half dole fo the H 6 WITCHCRAFT, Other half bov/. To prevent the joint frona being detetxed, the bow is notched regularlysili roundj about a quarter of an inch place it on the cheek, with your thumbprefs that part of the bow back that paifesthe fpring ; you may have a key to do this,but I do not fee any great utility in
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