BOMB.--This foretells a personal disaster or news of an explosion and loss of life. BONES.--These are an indication of misfortune surmounted with courage. BONNET.--This implies that youth will be past before you have the best happiness of your life. See also WIDOW'S BONNET. BOOK.--An open book shows a desire for information and a mind ever on the alert to understand new theories and facts; a closed book is a sign of expectancy. BOOKCASE.--This is a pleasing symbol of coming success through study and perseverance. BOOMERANG.--This sign means news from Australia, or that some unexpected development will lead to your having a great interest in that country; with signs of travel, that you will make your home there. BOOTBLACK.--A bootblack is a sign of failure in your work. BOOTS.--These show fortunate business, a good income, and the gratification of your tastes and pleasures; boots of a curious shape foretell an unfortunate enterprise ending in failure. BOOT-TREE.--A lucky surprise. BORDER.--See FLOWER BORDER. BOTTLE.--A sign of happy days; several bottles indicate extravagant tastes; small bottles, illness. BOUQUET.--This is a most fortunate symbol of coming happiness, love, fulfilled hope, and marriage. BOW.--A sign of reunion after absence or estrangement. BOW AND ARROW.--This denotes that there is unpleasant talk of your personal affairs which may do you harm. BOWER.--Happiness in love is proclaimed by this symbol. BOX.--An open box foreshows a troubled love affair; a closed box, that you will find something which you had lost. BOY.--This symbol must be read in accordance with other signs in the cup. BRACELET.--A discovery made too late. BRANCH.--A large branch is a sign of much independence and of success in carrying out an undertaking; the larger it is the greater your success; a broken branch signifies an attempt to organise a project or new scheme which will end in failure. BREAD.--A loaf of bread is a sign of the commonplace and of monotony; several loaves give warning against waste and extravagance, for a shortage of corn is threatened; loaves of bread with crossed swords above them predict mutiny and disaffection among those whom the world trusted. BRICKLAYER'S TROWEL.--A task which you have in hand will be successfully carried out. BRICKS.--These signify new plans and enterprises which will lead to prosperity. BRIDE.--This sign indicates a wedding, coming joy, or a rival in your affections, according to other symbols around it. BRIDGE.--An advantageous opportunity; a fortunate journey. See also SUSPENSION BRIDGE. BRIDLE.--This points to the fact that you greatly object to interference or authority, and that you will always be "top dog" with your friends. BROOCH.--This indicates that you are likely to make a discovery greatly to your advantage, and may in time turn it to good account in the development of a patent; a brooch with dots around it predicts a present.