THE HOME, FARM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPAEDIA. 



How to Work the Oracidum. 



Make marks in four lines/one under another, in the following manner, 

 making more or less in each line, according to your fancy : 



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 ********** 

 *********** 

 ************ 



Then reckon the number of marks in each line, and if it be odd, mark 

 down one dot ; if even, two dots. Jf there be more than nine marks, rec- 

 kon the surplus ones over that number only, viz. : 



The number of marks in the first line of the foregoing are odd ; therefore 



make one mark thus # 



In the second, even, so make two thus ^ # 



In the third, odd again, make one mark only ^ 



In the fourth, even again, two marks * # 



To Obtain the Answer. 



You must refer to THE ORACULUM, at the top of which you will find a 

 row of dots similar to those you have produced, and a column of figures 

 corresponding with those prefixed to the questions ; guide your eye down 

 the column, at the top of which you find the dots resembling your own, 

 till you come to the letter on a line with the number of the question you 

 are trying ; then refer to the page having that letter at the top, and on a 

 line with the dots which are similar to your own, you will find your an- 

 swer. 



The following are unlucky days, on which none of the questions should 

 be worked, or any enterprise undertaken : January 1, 2, 4, 6, 18, 20, 22 ; 

 February 6, 17, 2G ; March 24, 26 ; April 10, 27, 28 ; May 7, 8 ; June 29 ; 

 July 17, 21 ; August 20, 22 ; September 5, 30 ; October 6 ; November 3, 

 29; December 6, 10, 15. 



%* It is not right to try a question twice in the one day. 



