NINE: Proposals of marriage. TEN: Good fortune in games of chance, in lottery speculations, finding a treasure. ♦ (DIAMONDS.) ACE: A letter, news—whether good or bad is determined by the nearest cards. SEVEN: Travels, a campaign. EIGHT: A ball, company. NINE: Illness—if a knave lies on the right side, you will soon stand godfather. TEN: A joyful meeting—a long lost friend returned. Of the picture cards we will speak hereafter. ♥ (HEARTS.) ACE: Quiet domestic life—tranquillity. SEVEN: Falling in Love—Love. EIGHT: A Surprise. NINE: Betrothal. TEN: A Wedding. In explaining the cards, my dear readers, to any one, shuffle the pack three times, and let the person who wishes to know his fortune cut it three times in succession. Then take up the cards, and let the person in question draw one. This drawn card you place first upon the table. Then spread out the pack in four rows, each containing eight cards. (_See Engraving._) The first card is of the highest significance. In the first place it indicates the character of the person inquiring, and according to the following rule: ♠ Choleric, passionate, violent. ♣ Sanguine, cheerful, mirthful, witty. ♦ Phlegmatic, practical, unexcitable. ♥ Melancholic, sentimental, poetical, talented. As, however, the human character is never without more than one of the above named characteristics, the first card signifies the most prominent one, and the cards which lie on the right side and below it are reckoned with it, by which the meaning of the first card is either modified or corroborated. If the person in question is a lady, and she has, for example, drawn a club, the queen of clubs is herself, the knave of clubs is her intended, the king her father, or uncle, as the case may be. The picture cards of the other black suit are her friends and relations. It is the same if she has drawn hearts or diamonds, only that in this case the picture cards of the other red suit signify her friends and relations. If the person inquiring is a gentleman, it is the same, except that he is the knave of the suit which he has drawn, and his intended the queen. From this first card, also, you form a judgment of one’s whole future course in life. If its signification is joyful, the person’s life will be a happy one. If, for example, it is the ace of hearts, it indicates that the person will never be without a home, a dear and pleasant home to him; if it is the ace of clubs, he will pass through life enjoying honor and fame; if it is the ten of hearts with a female figure on either side, it signifies two wives; if with a male figure on either side, and the person inquiring is a female, two husbands. [Illustration: EXAMPLE OF FORTUNE-TELLING WITH AN EUCHRE PACK OF CARDS.]