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Transcriber’s Notes:

The author of this book is listed in other sources as Aaron A. Warford.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

p. 36: ives changed to fives (three fives, a)

pp. 36-37: The section entitled NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM; OR, BOOK OF FATE was moved from just preceding the first section entitled LIST OF UNLUCKY DAYS to just preceding the section entitled ORACULUM.

p. 39: cautions changed to cautious (extremely cautious of)

p. 46: ORACULUM table split into two parts to fit margins.