Fortune-Telling 55
I ever did, and she described out my farm better’n I could myself.
“I asked if I was ever goin’ to get married agin. She looked over her stone and said, ‘Here's lots of women I see. Here’s lots on ’em. You c’n have ’em if you want ’em.’”
If at any time you want a yes or no answer to some question, just get a friend to gather the corners of a handkerchief up so that his hand is closed over the ends, except a bit of the tips. Then you take hold of two, and when you straighten the handkerchief out if you have got it the long way the answer is “yes”; if the short way, “no.”
Take an apple, and pare it round and round so that the skin-will come off in one continuous strand. Swing the paring around your head three times, and then throw it over your shoulder. It will, when it falls, take the form of some letter of the alphabet, or it ought to. That letter will be the initial of your beau’s last name. If the initial won't fit the last name of any person you consider attractive, those who practise this art will allow you to try to make it fit some one’s first name. On account of the curliness of the paring, the rounded let-
