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

♠ A student, probably a clergyman.

♣ A lawyer—jurist.

♦ A mechanic, merchant, or a person who has chosen for himself some practical career.

♥ A capitalist, a genius who devotes himself to some favorite pursuit, also a military man.

The card at the right hand is commonly the decisive one, but as, in the present case, there is no right hand card, the one at the left takes its place; according to this, the lady’s intended is a capitalist, a genius, or a military man.

We now proceed to tell the lady’s fortune in its particulars.

We commence from the ace of hearts, thus: a considerable windfall will happen in your family, young lady. Either you or your parents will draw a prize in the lottery, or heaven will drop some other nice morsel into your mouth (ten of clubs).

This will give occasion to a journey, which you will take with an acquaintance (king of spades and seven of diamonds). This journey will be very agreeable to you, and especially will you enjoy yourself at a ball, to which you will be invited by a friend of your travelling companion (knave of clubs and eight of diamonds). You will then dance a cotillion with a relative of your intended, perhaps with your own brother-in-law that is to be (knave of diamonds).

When you return home, you will find a letter, at the sight of which you will be disturbed, the hand-writing being that of a person unfriendly to you (queen of spades, ace of spades). You open it, and behold it is a proposal of marriage (nine of clubs), and from a relative of the gentleman who invited you to the ball (king of clubs), which touches the (nine of clubs).

As, however, you promise yourself nothing but vexation (eight of spades) from this marriage, you refuse him (ten of spades), and it will soon appear that a better fortune lies before you (eight of clubs). Soon after, a wedding takes place (ten of hearts), namely, that of your sister or friend (queen of diamonds), who, therefore, does not stand between you and your intended to separate you, but to unite you. The bridegroom is the gentleman who was your partner in the cotillion at that ball (knave of diamonds). At this wedding you will among others see your intended (knave of hearts), with whom you are already acquainted. You will also meet there a gentleman, who, when you last saw him, was dangerously ill (seven of spades, knave of spades, and ten of diamonds). Your intended seizes the opportunity to offer himself to you, and you become betrothed to him (nine of hearts). You will receive a present from a relative or friend, perhaps from your brother (ace of clubs, and king of diamonds).