To enable this oracle to be read with an intelligent and proper understanding it is important that one be fully informed as to all the possible values or interpretations of the cards, singly and in combination. Hence we shall devote a number of pages to these definitions in very complete form before proceeding to elucidate for you the various methods of dealing, laying and reading the cards. We give first the simple and primary meanings, followed in detail by their secondary or synonymical meanings, the whole constituting a valuable work of reference for all who practice the art, enabling them to give a full, fair and wise reading of every possible "fall" of the cards. The primary meanings, while sufficient for the amateur, will soon be seen by the student to be lacking in that completeness and flexibility demanded by the adept. Their natural amplification into their secondary and more extended definitions gives the interpreter the fullest scope to exercise his powers of reading any possible layout of the cards intelligently, and with satisfaction both to himself and to the person consulting the oracle. DICTIONARY OF PRIMARY DEFINITIONS _Used in Interpreting the 32-Card Method of Telling Fortunes._ _Diamonds._ KING _Upright_--Marriage. A military man. A man of fidelity. A dignitary of the state. A very fair person. A man of tact and cunning. _Reversed_--A country gentleman. A difficulty concerning marriage or business. Threatened danger, caused through the machination of a man in position or office. QUEEN _Upright_--A blonde female. A lady resident in the country. A woman given to gossiping and scandal. _Reversed_--A country gentlewoman. A malignant female, who seeks to foment disadvantage to the consultant, and who is to be greatly feared. JACK _Upright_--A country man. A young man of light complexion, of a lower grade in society. A messenger. Postman. A tale-bearing servant, or unfaithful friend. _Reversed_--A servant. An intermeddler, who will be the cause of mischief. A messenger bearing ill-news. ACE _Upright_--The ace of diamonds, whether upright or reversed, signifies a letter, a petition, a note, a paper, a document. _Reversed_--The ace of diamonds, reversed or upright, designates a letter to be shortly received, a petition, a note, a paper, or a document. TEN _Upright_--The ten of diamonds, either upright or reversed, represents coin, gold, water, the sea, a foreign city, and change of locality. _Reversed_--The ten of diamonds, whether reversed or upright, designates bullion, coin, gold, water, the ocean, a foreign city, a journey and change in locality. NINE _Upright_--Enterprise. Separation. Advantage. _Reversed_--Delay. Annoyance. Poverty. A family feud, or a quarrel among intimate friends. EIGHT _Upright_--The country. Riches. Love-making overtures.