54 Fortune-Telling
lookin’ woman, and she told fortins. You had to pay her a quarter. I give her a quarter once; and she looked into my hand, and said, ‘You’re goin’ to be rich sometime,’ and a lot of other stuff—a gret long mess on it. She didn’t know any more about fortins ’n I do, but she ‘tended she did.
“There is people can tell, though, and tell it true. I was goin’ down to Springfield, and I stopped at Cabotsville to see Jim Tinkham that I’d always known for a long time. We was walking down a street together when we come to a house where we see a fat woman settin’ in the winder. Jim said she told fortins. He said, ‘Come in, and get your fortin told, an’ I’ll pay the bill.’
“So we went in. Jim give the woman a quarter, and she took a little grayish stone, and begun to point out the spots on’t here and there along with her needle. She told me that on my way down I stopped in a house, and asked a young lady for her company, ‘ And she give you the mitten,’ she said.
“Well, that was just as it had happened tome. Then she told me about three long journeys, one of ’em way out West that I’d made. She told me everything
