I have thought it my duty to print this little history, as a kind of warning to all young men and maidens not to have any thing to say to _cheats, impostors, cunning women, fortune tellers, conjurors_, and _interpreters of dreams_. Listen to me, your true friend, when I assure you that God never reveals to weak and wicked women those secret designs of his providence, which no human wisdom is able to foresee. To consult these false oracles is not only foolish, but sinful. It is foolish, because they are themselves as ignorant as those whom they pretend to teach; and is sinful, because it is prying into that futurity which God, in mercy as well as wisdom, hides from men. God indeed _orders_ all things; but when you have a mind to do a foolish thing, do not fancy you are _fated_ to do it. This is tempting Providence, and not trusting him. It is indeed _charging God with folly_. Providence is his gift, and you obey him better when you make use of prudence, under the direction of prayer, than when you madly run into ruin, and think you are only submitting to your fate. Never fancy that you are compelled to undo yourself, or to rush upon your own destruction, in compliance with any supposed fatality. Never believe that God conceals his will from a sober Christian who obeys his laws, and reveals it to a vagabond gypsy who runs up and down breaking the laws both of God and man. King Saul never consulted the witch till he left off serving God. The Bible will direct us what to do better than any conjuror, and there are no days unlucky but those which we make so by our own vanity, sin, and folly. STORIES FOR PERSONS OF THE MIDDLE RANKS. THE HISTORY OF MR. FANTOM, (THE NEW FASHIONED PHILOSOPHER,) AND HIS MAN WILLIAM.