to call the author of this little book a fool.

–it is a good sign you are ripe for confidence men.

as your system requires, and be as regular as possible in your hours of retiring.  Continuous loss of sleep will break the strongest constitution.

select a person who has much of an “up and down” motion when he walks–it is a sign of irregularity, and many ups and downs in life.

is a sign of poor health, and is shunned by a sensible, well informed man, as he would the cholera.

–you may have a strange note to pay.

you have carefully examined it–do not be afraid of offending those persons interested in your signing it.