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<p>Tobin was a believer in signs and the unnatural in nature. He possessed illegal convictions in his mind along the subjects of black cats, lucky numbers, and the weather predictions in the papers.</p>
<p>We went into the enchanted chicken coop, which was fixed mysterious with red cloth and pictures of hands with lines crossing em like a railroad centre. The sign over the door says it is Madame Zozo the Egyptian Palmist. There was a fat woman inside in a red jumper with pothooks and beasties embroidered upon it. Tobin gives her ten cents and extends one of his hands. She lifts Tobins hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a drayhorse, and examines it to see whether tis a stone in the frog or a cast shoe he has come for.</p>
<p>“Man,” says this Madame Zozo, “the line of your fate shows—”</p>
<p>“Tis not me foot at all,” says Tobin, interrupting. “Sure, tis no beauty, but ye hold the palm of me hand.”</p>
<p>Tis not me foot at all,” says Tobin, interrupting. “Sure, tis no beauty, but ye hold the palm of me hand.”</p>
<p>“The line shows,” says the Madame, “that yeve not arrived at your time of life without bad luck. And theres more to come. The mount of Venus—or is that a stone bruise?—shows that yeve been in love. Theres been trouble in your life on account of your sweetheart.”</p>
<p>Tis Katie Mahorner she has references with,” whispers Tobin to me in a loud voice to one side.</p>
<p>“I see,” says the palmist, “a great deal of sorrow and tribulation with one whom ye cannot forget. I see the lines of designation point to the letter K and the letter M in her name.”</p>
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<p><em>Can</em> ye spell it with an o?” inquires Tobin, turning anxious.</p>
<p>“If your conscience,” says the man with the nose, “is indisposed toward foreign idioms ye might, to please yourself, smuggle the letter into the penultimate syllable.”</p>
<p>Tis well,” says Tobin. “Yere in the presence of Jawn Malone and Daniel Tobin.”</p>
<p>“Tis highly appreciated,” says the man, with a bow. “And now since I cannot conceive that ye would hold a spelling bee upon the street corner, will ye name some reasonable excuse for being at large?”</p>
<p>Tis highly appreciated,” says the man, with a bow. “And now since I cannot conceive that ye would hold a spelling bee upon the street corner, will ye name some reasonable excuse for being at large?”</p>
<p>“By the two signs,” answers Tobin, trying to explain, “which ye display according to the reading of the Egyptian palmist from the sole of me hand, yeve been nominated to offset with good luck the lines of trouble leading to the nigger man and the blonde lady with her feet crossed in the boat, besides the financial loss of a dollar sixty-five, all so far fulfilled according to Hoyle.”</p>
<p>The man stopped smoking and looked at me.</p>
<p>“Have ye any amendments,” he asks, “to offer to that statement, or are ye one too? I thought by the looks of ye ye might have him in charge.”</p>