The Witches of New York

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Doesticks Q. K. Philander. The Witches of New York

Preface

CHAPTER I. WHICH IS MERELY EXPLANATORY

CHAPTER II. MADAME PREWSTER, No. 373 BOWERY

CHAPTER III. MADAME BRUCE, “THE MYSTERIOUS VEILED LADY,” No. 513 BROOME STREET

CHAPTER IV. MADAME WIDGER, No. 3 FIRST AVENUE

CHAPTER V. MRS. PUGH, No. 102 SOUTH FIRST STREET, WILLIAMSBURGH

CHAPTER VI. MADAME MORROW, THE ASTONISHER, No. 76 BROOME STREET

CHAPTER VII. DR. WILSON, No. 172 DELANCEY STREET

CHAPTER VIII. MRS. HAYES, A CLAIRVOYANT, No. 176 GRAND STREET

CHAPTER IX. MRS. SEYMOUR, CLAIRVOYANT, No. 110 SPRING STREET

CHAPTER X. MADAME CARZO, THE BRAZILIAN ASTROLOGIST, No. 151 BOWERY

CHAPTER XI. MADAME LEANDER LENT, No. 163 MULBERRY STREET

CHAPTER XII. THE GIPSY GIRL

CHAPTER XIII. MADAME FLEURY, No. 263 BROOME STREET

CHAPTER XIV. A BLACK PROPHET, MR. GROMMER, No. 34 NORTH SECOND STREET, WILLIAMSBURGH

CHAPTER XV. MADAME CLIFTON, 185 ORCHARD STREET

CHAPTER XVI. MADAME HARRIS, No. 80 WEST 19th STREET, NEAR SIXTH AVENUE

CHAPTER XVII. A BATCH OF WITCHES

CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION

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The first undertaking of the author of these pages will be to convince his readers that he has not set about making a merely funny book, and that the subject of which he writes is one that challenges their serious and earnest attention. Whatever of humorous description may be found in the succeeding chapters, is that which grows legitimately out of certain features of the theme; for there has been no overstrained effort to make fun where none naturally existed.

The Witches of New York exert an influence too powerful and too wide-spread to be treated with such light regard as has been too long manifested by the community they have swindled for so many years; and it is to be desired that the day may come when they will be no longer classed with harmless mountebanks, but with dangerous criminals.

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A feeble child, just old enough to run alone, had constructed a child’s paradise in the lee of the cooking-stove, and was seated on a dinner-pot, with one foot in a saucepan; it had been playing on the wash-boiler like a drum, but was now engaged in decorating some loaves of unbaked bread with bits of charcoal and splinters from the broom.

The fighting servant retreated to the far end of the apartment, where she began to wash dishes with vindictive earnestness, stopping at short intervals to wave her dish-cloth savagely as a challenge to instant single combat. There was nothing visible that savored of astrology or magic, unless some tin candlesticks with battered rims could be cabalistically construed.

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