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The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

Felix Fontaine

Folio

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

by Felix Fontaine

free to read

length

95,375 words

a few pages a day

~8 min

finished in

51 days

full read

6h 37m

At Folio's default of ten pages a day, you finish The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers. in about 51 days — roughly 8 minutes of reading each morning.

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the first pages of The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers., free

New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played.

Surprising Tricks, easy of performance.

Musical and other innocent sells.

A variety of new and ingenious puzzles.

Comical Illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque illusions are very startling in their effects, and present little or no difficulty in their preparation.

ALSO AN ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED “MRS. JARLEY’S WAX WORKS.”

[Illustration: THE FLEXIBLE GIANT. A COMIC ILLUSION.]

Illustrated and explained by sixty fine wood engravings.

Illuminated paper covers =30 cts.= Bound in boards, with cloth back =50 cts.=

The Art and Etiquette of Making Love. A Manual of Love, Courtship and Matrimony. It tells

[Illustration: Cherubs playing leap-frog]]

How to Cure Bashfulness;

How to Commence a Courtship;

How to Please a Sweetheart or Lover;

How to Write a Love-Letter;

How to  “Pop the Question”;

How to Act Before and After a Proposal;

How to Accept or Reject a Proposal;

How to Break off an Engagement;

How to Act After an Engagement;

How to Act as Bridesmaid or Groomsman;

How the Etiquette of a Wedding and the After-Reception Should be Observed;

And, in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency connected with courtship and matrimony. It includes also a choice collection of sensible Letters suitable for all the contingencies of Love and Courtship.

176 pages, paper covers =30 cts.= Bound in boards, cloth back =50 cts.=

=Dick’s Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter.= Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and simple explanations of all the figures and steps which occur in Plain and Fancy Quadrilles. Also, a plain analysis and description of all the steps employed in the favorite round dances, fully describing:

The Opening March or Polonaise, Various Plain and Fancy Quadrilles, Waltz and Glide Quadrilles, Plain Lancers and Caledonians, Glide Lancers and Caledonians, Saratoga Lancers, The Parisian Varieties, The Prince Imperial Set, Social and Basket Quadrilles, Nine-Pin and Star Quadrilles, Gavotte and Minuet Quadrilles, March and Cheat Quadrilles, Favorite Jigs and Contra-Dances, Polka and Polka Redowa, Redowa and Redowa Waltz, Polka Mazourka and Old Style Waltz, Modern Plain Waltz and Glide, Boston Dip and Hop Waltz, Five-Step Waltz and Schottische, Varsovienne and Zulma L’Orientale, Galop and Deux Temps, Esmeralda, Sicilienne, Danish Dance

AND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE  “GERMAN;”

To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and Proper Deportment in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.

Paper covers =50 cts.= Bound in boards =75 cts.=

=Uncle Josh’s Trunkful of Fun.= A portfolio of first-class Wit and Humor, and never-ending source of Jollity.

CONTAINING A RICH COLLECTION OF

Comical Stories, Cruel Sells, Side-Splitting Jokes, Humorous Poetry, Quaint Parodies, Burlesque Sermons, New Conundrums, Mirth-Provoking Speeches, Curious Puzzles, Amusing Card Tricks, and Astonishing Feats of Parlor-Magic.

[Illustration: Laughing Man]

This book is illustrated with nearly 200 Funny Engravings, and contains 64 large octavo double-column pages. =15 cts.=

=Barber’s American Book of Ready-Made Speeches.= Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, with appropriate replies to each.

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The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers. by Felix Fontaine is free to read in full. Folio serves it in daily portions you can actually finish, tracks your streak and reading position across devices, and reads every page aloud with a built-in narrator. The text comes from Project Gutenberg.

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