A few days since, this reformed woman was sweeping the pavement in front of her house, when two female servants came up, enquiring for the house of the fortune-teller; mourning over them for their folly, she said--_My dears_, _she cannot tell your fortunes_. _I have been a professed fortune-teller_, _and have deceived hundreds_. She succeeded in persuading them to go home. At a meeting of Gipsies held at a gentleman's house, Jan. 1830, the youngest child of this woman said to her mother, _Mammy_, _who be all these folks_? The mother replied, _They are Gipsies_. _Was_ I _ever like 'em_? asked the child. _Yes_, said the mother, _you was once a poor little Gipsy without stockings and shoes_, _and glad to beg a halfpenny of any body_. It is a circumstance not to be lamented, that the condition even of a little child, has been so much bettered by the exertions of the Committee. In addition to the encouragement afforded us by this woman, giving up with so much decision the practice of fortune-telling, the author must not forget to mention an instance of her forbearance of temper under provocation and outrage. She had, when a vagrant, a quarrel with some of her ignorant people of another tribe. Meeting with them after her reformation, she was severely beaten by them, and had her ear-drops torn from her ears, while they contemptuously called her _Methodist_. When asked, why she did not bring her persecutors to justice, she replied, _How can I be forgiven_, _if I do not forgive_? _That is what my Testament tells me_. The young widow we have before mentioned, continued to tell fortunes for some time after we had taken her children; but it pleased the Holy Spirit to awaken her conscience, and to shew her the wickedness of such crimes, by which she was led to true repentance and reformation of character. After the death of both the children of this interesting individual, she went into the service of a kind and pious lady in London. For this situation she was prepared by one of equal benevolence in Southampton, who had her for some time in her own house for that purpose. She continued in this situation till the lady's death, and has since been in other service, where she has conducted herself so well as to prove she is become a sincere servant of Christ. CHAP. X. Some Remarks on the Sin of Fortune-telling. The author will be pardoned, he is willing to hope, by the kind reader, if he digress in one or two paragraphs in this part of his work, purposely to expose the great wickedness of prognostication and fortune-telling; as the whole is not only unsound, foolish, absurd and false, but is most peremptorily forbidden in the Scriptures.