_Four Queens._--Company, society; one or more reversed, denotes that the entertainment will not go off well. _Three Queens._--Friendly calls; reversed, chattering and scandal or deceit. _Two Queens._--A meeting between friends; reversed, poverty, troubles, in which one will involve the other. _Four Knaves._--A noisy party--mostly young people; reversed, a drinking bout. _Three Knaves._--False friends; reversed, a quarrel with some low person. _Two Knaves._--Evil intentions; reversed, danger. _Four tens._--Great success in projected enterprises; reversed, the success will not be so brilliant, but still it will be sure. _Three tens._--Improper conduct; reversed, failure. _Two tens._--Change of trade or profession; reversed, denotes that the prospect is only a distant one. _Four nines._--A great surprise; reversed, a public dinner. _Three nines._--Joy, fortune, health; reversed, wealth lost by imprudence. _Two nines._--A little gain; reversed, trifling losses at cards. _Four eights._--A short journey; reversed, the return of a friend or relative. _Three eights._--Thoughts of marriage; reversed, folly, flirtation. _Two eights._--A brief love-dream; reversed, small pleasures and trifling pains. _Four Sevens._--Intrigues among servants or low people, threats, snares, and disputes; reversed, that their malice will be impotent to harm, and that the punishment will fall on themselves. _Three sevens._--Sickness, premature old age; reversed, slight and brief indisposition. _Two sevens._--Levity; reversed, regret. Any picture-card between two others of equal value--as two tens, two Aces, etc.--denotes that the person represented by that card runs the risk of a prison. It requires no great efforts to commit these significations to memory, but it must be remembered that they are but what the alphabet is to the printed book: a little attention and practice, however, will soon enable the learner to form these mystic letters into words, and words into phrases; in other language, to assemble these cards together, and read the events, past and to come, their pictured faces pretend to reveal. There are several ways of doing this; but we will give them all, one after another, so as to afford our readers an ample choice of methods of prying into futurity. DEALING THE CARDS BY THREES.