Another game was called "The Three T's," or "The Tumbler Test."
Fill three tumblers with water. One must hold blue water, such as the laundress uses for clothes, another must hold soapy water, and another clear water, while still another must be empty. These tumblers should stand on a table directly before the individual who is to be blindfolded. After he is blindfolded, change the position of the glasses, placing one where the other one stood, and so on. Then instruct the party to dip his fingers into one of the tumblers. Having felt around, his fingers are dipped into clear water, and thus he learns that he is to marry a beautiful rich girl. Had he dipped into the soapy water, it would have meant that he would marry a poor widow; if in the blue water, he would be a noted author; if in the empty glass, he would die a bachelor. This game is played in the same way with the girls, only, of course, changing the sex, as, example, marrying a rich, handsome man.
As the boy was now very near home, he had only time to explain one more game, called "The Walnut's Fortune."
A quantity of walnuts had been carefully opened in half, and inside each one was slipped a narrow piece of paper which predicted the future. The nuts were kept from opening by having a small elastic slipped over each. The boys' walnuts were put in one basket and the girls' in another, and the girls' basket was first offered. As each girl held her hand over the basket she repeated,
"Steady, good fairy, I am wary;
Pray let my hand make no mistake;
I would only the right nut take."
Then, having put her hand down, she lifted up a nut, removed the elastic, and taking out the paper, read her future aloud. Example: "You will travel around the world. At the age of twenty-three you will sing before two thousand people." And thus the future was predicted in similar style for all the players.
But the boy was at his destination, and therefore his new friend and himself had to part company, not before the driver said, however, "I'll come along arter you some day, fer I can't git over feelin' glad to see you ag'in; no knowin' what you'll hev ter tell nex' time."