The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
To the South.

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And then come another card that read:
!: You are going to have business loss.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
After that this cat witch sneaks one
! look from her birthstone eyes and lays
down again and finishes her nap.
And the very next day my star pointer
Bluepoint Bounder, that never had an
ache OF a pain in his life, jest curls up and
dies, and before I'd got over cussing about
that comes a telegram calling me TO Balt-
more TO look over a lot Of imported beagles
for old johnson. Then saw Bill had got
his fortune telling cat all right.
By the time l got back Bill had the
scheme all ready to spring on the public.
He'd hired a place down on Fourteenth
street and Jest sprinkled the papers with
ads for Madame Dorganne's Fortune Tell
ing Cat. Past, present and future told
for 80 cents.
1t was Bills idea 60 begin small until
he got a reputation and then work up his
prices till he was doing business with the
Fifth avenue aristocracy at $40 a head.
You can see the scheme looked good.
well, they opened their Parlors Mrs.
Dorgan. playing Madame Dorganne, set
in a little room all covered with red cloth.
She wore long gown. She was supposed
to be the sorceress. Bill acted as outside
man and showed customers into the inside
room.
THE day they opened there was a big
rush. They'd advertised the thing great
and you can see yourself how It would catch
on with the public.
There was hired girls and real dressed
up ladies and old women in mourning and
giggly young girls all waiting to have their
fortunes told by Bill Dorgan's cat
The FIRST person that paid up and got
showed In was an old lady with a wart
under her eye and a tendency toward
whiskers. Witch sized her up and then
she began to drop cards. And this as
Bill told me- was about the way they read:
s'You are not beautiful-You are going
70 lose money-You will hear bad news
within a week
And then Witch goes OF and lays down,
showing that the session was closed.
THAT old lady went up In the air like
the fuse had just reached her, She went
a-stomping through the front room, making
awful remarks about the place being dis
reputable.
THAT was a bad starter but Bill stood
pat. The next lady he showed In was a
peachy little girl Witch looked her over
ng time. and then drops cards like this:
you are beaUtiful-but you are not
Rood-He loves another-a blonde--You
win marry--a butcher-and have ten
children
The little girl just melted out into her
handkerchief and had high strikes Bill
tried TO calm her down, but Of course
the moro he talked 10 her the worse she
got And at last he showed her out through
the waiting room.
sNoW when the first customer oome
out Of that room talking scandal about
Il and the &c cond one come out In high
strikes, them women began to look either
scared or mad.
Some Of 'em got out right away and
some said II was Q shame. And in the
middle Of the mess, great big Irish woman
slipped through the crowd and got into the
inside room out OF her turn and set down
IN front Of Witch the fortune telling cat.
The blame old beast got up and looked
her over with them sulfur eyes and begun
TO draw cards. And this IL what she
throwed into the lap Of that Irish woman:
You have had n hard rast--you will
have a black future-much trouble from
disease-you have a violent temper
when she read all that the Irish woman
out up something fearful She let out a
war Whoop and kicked over the table and
Jet went for Mrs. Dorgan. Bill come in
and done his best 20 rescue his wife. but the
Irish woman was a husky one. Il was all
he could do 10 git her through the door.
When the other women see that they
set up a screaming you could hear for blocks.
Some Of 'em piled into Bill and beat him
with pare sols, and some run.
The cop on the beat heard Il and piled
IN himself Bill had presence Of mind to
slip him 80. and by the time they bad
ttraightened II out and arrested the Irish
woman for disorderly conduct there wasn't
a customer In the place.
Bill set do wn in his empty fortune telling
parlors and do ped II all out; and he see right
away Jest where he made his mistake. He
never thought about tina point before.
That fortune telling cat couldn' I tell no tn
ing but the truth. What women want when
they coms 10 git their fortunes told amt
truth but bot air. You can franc that up
for yourself, boss
III anybody was 10 tell you jest what's
going 10 happen 10 you, it's like as not you'd
cit blame sore. And it's heap more that
way with women.
sBill seen, plain a. could be- that he could
never breed enough brains and obedienoe
into cats TO make EN- act accommodating
and dress up the truth 10 suit Custome rs
80 after figuring on II for half an hour, he
busted into the back room and eau ght that
cat Witch by the tail and slunR her out Of
the window as fur as he could sling her
The last he seen Of her, she was scoohng
over fencf like all sin.
The devils IN that cat says Bill. It's
q funny thin g-but come 10 think Of Il over
this IL the hrst time the devil ever got any
Of his own into troubh on account OF tsliin'
vasG Kind Of funny mix up vantiti'