“We will tell fortunes now,” says Nell. She puts nuts on the fire to burn, in order to find out who loves them best. She tells their fortunes by pouring hot lead in a tumbler of water, and by cards. But the best way of all is this: She brings a basin of water into the room, a pan of ashes, and the wing of a goose, and sets them on the floor. A little girl has her eyes bandaged, the rest looking on joyously. The position of the basin, etc., is changed, and the child is to grope her way to one of them. If she puts her hand into the ashes, she will die an old maid; if she touches the wing of the goose, she will marry an old man; if it is the water, she will marry for love.