Also, recipes to farmers for good weather or rain, according as they may be wanted.
"(Signed,) Her Zander VANDERPLUCKEM," "The Greatest Conjurer, Astrologer, and Doctor in the world." To describe the effect that this bill, which, by the way, was posted against every dead wall in the town, had upon the people, would be impossible.

The inn in which he stopped was, in a short time, crowded with applicants, either for relief or information, according as their ills or wishes came under the respective heads of his advertisement.

The room he occupied was upstairs, and he had a door that led into a smaller one, or kind of closet, at the end of it; here sat an old-looking man, dressed in a black coat, black breeches, and black stockings; the very picture of the mysterious individual who had appeared and disappeared so suddenly at the bonfire.

He had on a full-bottomed wig, and a long white beard, depending from the lower part of his face, swept his reverend breast.

A large book lay open before him, on the pages of which were inscribed cabalistic characters and strange figures.