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description must necessarily fall far short of the reality but if the reader will endeavor to imagine a couple of oil-mills a peck slip ferry-boat a soap and candle manufactory
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the house a three-story brick originally intended to be something above the common has been for so many years misused and badly treated by reckless tenants that it has completely lost its good temper as well as its good looks and is now in a perpetual state of aggravated sulkiness
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contains a true account of the magic establishment of mrs fleury of number two sixty three broome street and also shows the exact amount of witchcraft that snuffy personage can afford for one dollar
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as an evidence of the implicit faith put in these people by their dupes it may be mentioned that many applications have been made to judge welsh of this city and to the other judges
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then ensued the following wonderful predictions uttered by a dubious and uncertain voice under the veilwhich voice seemed one minute to come from the mouth then it issued from the throat then it sprawled out of the stomach
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no collisions to be feared no running off the track at a speed of ever so many unaccountable miles an hour no cast iron voiced conductor at short intervals demanding tickets no old women with sour babies no obtrusive boys with double priced books and magazines
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he had something of a natural turn for mechanics and having been of late engaged in some entertaining speculations on steam engines he came not unnaturally to think of the wonderful advantage the magically endowed people of old had over the present age in the matter of locomotion
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she opened the door and the customer entered the reception-room and had ample time before the appearance of the mistress to take an observation the parlor was neatly though rather scantily furnished with a rigid economy in the article of chairs
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this specialty has however been pretty much abandoned of late by nearly all of them in consequence of law proceedings against certain ones of the sisterhood which have in three or four instances been commenced by parties who have been wrongfully accused of theft
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he first belabored it with the four simple rules he stretched it with addition he cut it in two with subtraction he made it top-heavy with multiplication and tore it to pieces with divisionthen
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but its various communications when gathered together were found to sum up as follows you face back misfortune and trouble of which you have had much but they are now behind you and you have no more to fear
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to be sure the daughter of saturn was tried for conspiring with two other persons to swindle an old and wealthy gentleman out of seventeen hundred dollars and the queen of the seven mysteries was dispossessed by a constable for non-payment of rent
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for warrants of arrest against respectable persons for theft the only grounds of suspicion against them being that some clairvoyant had said that the property had been stolen by a person of such and such a height with hair and eyes of this or that color and that the suspected person happened to answer the description
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there is a straight path between these two points which is travelled every year by hundreds of betrayed young girls who but for the superstitious snares of the one would never know the horrible realities of the other
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and which was finally brought safely to a secure harbor by the power of the widger which circumstance had made him her slave for life the shrill voice then ceased and the person to whom it had been addressed came forth
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the architect neglected to provide this beautiful edifice with a front door and the inquirer was compelled to ascend the bank by a flight of rheumatic steps and make a grand detour through currant bushes
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here solemnly undertakes upon the faith of his salary to relate the unadorned truth and to indulge in no
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the whole theory of clairvoyance as applied to fortune-telling and other branches of cheap necromancy seems to be somewhat like this a strong-minded person generally a man with a physique like a centre market butcher boy
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the liquors sold at these places are those pure and healthful beverages warranted to kill at forty rods and are the very drinks with which a convivial but revengeful man would wish to regale his friend against whom he held a secret grudge
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at this present time the gipsy girl enjoys almost a monopoly of this sort of thing and she is by no means constant to one name but sometimes announces herself as the gipsy woman the gipsy palmist and the gipsy wonder as her whim changes
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the anchorage was good and he rode securely for a short time until he could repair damages he having carried away some of his upper rigging in other words he had caught his veil on a meat-hook and had been unable to rescue it
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two chairs an old lounge with its dingy red cover fastened on with pins and a trunk covered with an old bit of carpet were the accommodations for seating visitors
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and these untoward circumstances may have acted as a modest quencher on the then growing disposition to indulge in fantastic and romantic appellations
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and once the queen of the seven mysteries condescended to sojourn in gotham for five weeks but on the whole it has been found that a more modest title pays better
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here his modest rap was unanswered and he composedly walked in unasked through the kitchen and took a seat in the parlor where he was presently discovered by the lady of the house but not until he had time to take an accurate observation
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old dreamy sol gills of coffee-colored memory has been admiringly recommended to the good opinion of the world by his friend capt
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he thought of that wonderful carpet on which a jolly little party had but to seat themselves and wish to be transported to any far-off spot and presto change there they were instanter
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or whatever might be hastily substituted for that connubial convenience will never be officially known to the world certain it is that he expected great results of some sort to eventuate from his visit to this
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the individual paid a lengthened visit to madame clifton and his remarks are recorded below because he met a sleek close-shaved finely moustached gentleman coming away from the door
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seeking out a friend to whom he confided his hopes of a lucrative wife and a profitable progeny the cash customer suggested that they proceed immediately in search of the fair enchantress who was to be his comfort and consolation for the rest of his respectable life
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while this curious process was going on the doctor had drawn down the window-shades thus darkening the room and now approached for the purpose of unhooking from its earthly tabernacle the soul that was to step up to minnesota and bring back word to his customer how all the folks got along
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he informed the madame with mock deference that he would not wait any longer he was then attended to the door by the bellicose maiden who seemed to have fathomed his deep dealings with the infuriate infant
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the answer was in the negative and it was evident that nothing but the chinese ruling planet charm would save him and no less than fifty dollars worth of that
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and a curious fact connected with this subject is that of these unfortunates who thus wander astray not one in ten but has ever after the most superstitious and implicit faith in the supernatural powers of the witch
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the anxious visitor looked for the princess but not seeing her or the slaves with the pots of jewels and observing also that the chairs were not too luxuriously gorgeous for people to sit on he sat down
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still clung to the fond belief that a bride with supernatural powers of doing things would be a splendid speculation and that such a spouse could be found if he her ardent lover did not give up the chase too soon
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there being a madame widger in that delightful catalogue of course widger was the one selected it is true she sometimes advertised herself as the mysterious spanish lady but in the judgment of the individual the widger was too much for the spanish and the mystery
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you will live with that wife twenty-five years then she will die and you will travel with your two daughters you will go to europe in england you will marry a french widow
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the exact mode of proceeding adopted by these conspirators against virtue the details of their plans the various stratagems by which their victims are snared and led on to certain ruin are not fit subjects for the present chapter
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accompanying her there was a strong smell of gin and from the odor of the liquor the visitor judged that it was a very poor article this gay old gipsy drew a chair to the table and sat down not in a graceful and composed manner but more as if she had been dumped from a cart
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he had been greatly disappointed by the absence from the domiciles of these good ladies of all the traditional necromantic implements and tools his disposition to adhere to the modern witch faith would have been greatly strengthened by the sight of a skull and cross-bones
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her deportment was self-possessed and lady-like that is if an expression of tireless watchfulness and unsleeping suspicion are consistent with refined and easy manners
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either they have not full faith in their own supernatural gifts or they distrust the policy of advertising at any rate they are only known to the inquiring stranger by accidental rumors
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the clairvoyant department of modern witchcraft is necessarily carried on by a partnership and one which is not identical with the legendary league with the devil
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but of those whose shame becomes publicly known and especially of those who eventually enter houses of ill-repute the percentage whose fall was accomplished through the instrumentality more or less direct of the professional fortune-tellers is astounding
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the mathematical tortures to which he put that unhappy amount the arithmetical abuse which he heaped upon it and the algebraic contumely with which he overwhelmed it almost defy description
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was this too damp individual incarcerated in the room by the order of the implacable madame prewster he would long before the end of that time have forfeited his dollar and a half
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being somewhat disgusted with the result of his visit to the witch with the romantic designation of the mysterious veiled lady he had determined to seek out one on this occasion with the most common-place and every-day cognomen in the whole list
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she produced an old french bible dingy with age and snuff and which she informed the observer had been in her family for three hundred years an old iron key was tied between the leaves with the ring and part of the shank of the key projecting
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hereupon mr hayes with a growl like a sulky rhinoceros opened the door which cut off the pot and kettle babel of the other room and commanded his wife to come
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then taking the wonder-working pieces of pasteboard in her hands and seating herself opposite her visitor she announced her gracious will thus you shall have six wishes
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so she took up the cards which were almost as greasy as she herself and prepared for business previously giving one most tremendous yawn which opened her sacred jaws so wide
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the individual however entered the doors unabashed by the malignant scowl which was visible all over the face of the unamiable mansion and stumbled through a narrow dirty hall up two flights of groaning stairs before he discovered any sign of the whereabouts of madame
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in certain of the older states of the union there cannot probably be found any country village that does not boast its old crones of fortune-telling celebritywomen
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or if he desires to know the particulars of the after-death behavior of any of his acquaintances of course he will find it to his interest to marry a medium of average respectability and in good practice and so save the expense of frequent consultations
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she would no longer need the subtle chemistry of the borgias she could learn of them to poison wholesale and to do the work by labor-saving machinery johannes resolved that if he should marry the astrologist he would move out of the neighborhood and take a house in a cleaner part of the city
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it may be mentioned here however as a curious fact that although all the witches profess to be able to tell lucky numbers and will at any time give a paying customer the exact figures which they are willing to prophesy will draw the capital prize in any given lottery
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and he respectfully submits that although they have heretofore been consulted by many ladies of respectability from motives of mere curiosity
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you were born under two planets moon and mars moon brings you a great deal of trouble in the early part of your life moon has occasioned a great deal of anxiety to your parents on your account
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he carried no umbrella preferring to stand up and fight it out with the storm face to face and because he detested a contemptible sneaking subterfuge of an umbrella pretending to keep him dry
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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
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in places the plaster had been displaced and the bare lath showed through reminding one of skeletons the floor was dingily carpeted
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and complains of his cruel treatment in sharp-pointed many-cornered tears of plaster which it drops from the ceiling upon his head the instant he takes his hat offit yawns its wide cellar doors open like a greedy mouth evidently hoping that an unlucky step will pitch him headlong downand
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like an underground hermit however this unselfish and generous sage not wishing to hide entirely the light of his great learning from a benighted world kindly condescends in the advertisement herewith given to retail his wisdom to anxious inquirers at a dollar a chunk
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moon made you liable to accidents and misfortunes while you was a boy and moon will give you great trouble until you arrive at middle age you were born i should say across the water and you will die across the water in a city but not a great city
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not a fold of her garments not a thread of lace or ribbon not a hair of her head but was exactly smooth and orderly and in its exact place not a glance of her eye that was not watchful and suspicious not a tone or word that was not treacherous in sound
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of course the cash customer was from the start perfectly convinced that that breed of horses is long since extinct so long ago that no record of them is now to be found in either the american racing calendar or the english stud book
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that the person now dwells in our city who combines the scientific attainments of gills with the intuitive wisdom of bunsby we have the solemn word of johannes the science is a trifle more dreamy and misty even than of old and the wisdom is solider and
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two dirty-faced children were playing about the room making a great noise one corner of the room was fenced off with rough boards forming a narrow closet in which two people could with some difficulty sit down
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home first-rate facilities for drugging a man into a state of crazy madness are offered at the bar across the way he may swill himself into a condition of beastly stupidity with lager beer from next door below
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with parties with whom the dupe is never brought in contact a common modus operandi of this sort is elsewhere described nor are the fortune-tellers and the brothel-keepers by any means content with playing into each other's hands in a general sort of way
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if the time of birth is given correct there is reason to apprehend that something of an affective nature occurred at about eight years and ten months at sixteen by ten i think i may say if the time of birth is given correct
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and he therefore courageously continued his pursuit of witchcraft under difficulties his next visit was to orchard street and he was induced to expect favorable results by the encouraging and positive assertion
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but carrying the unaccustomed but not less potent weapons of laces moire-antique crinoline and gaiters in fact there was also a stern necessity in the case for the lady on whom he had now set his young affections was particular as to her customers
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not good enough to be put into vigorous and strong bodies and which have been therefore hastily cased up in an inferior kind of human frame as a sort of make-shift for men and women
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having started a matrimonial subject with so satisfactory a result her customer thought he could do no better than to follow it up and accordingly asked question number two if i marry this person will the marriage be a happy one
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it is perhaps needless to state that the individual didn't have with him the fifty dollars to pay for the charm but intimated that he would call again after he got his year's salary
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celebritywomen who are not named by the awe-struck youngsters of the town but with low breath and a startled sort of look thrown backward over the shoulder every minute as if in half-fear that the evil eye is even there upon them
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or might have told him that he would upon opportunity garotte his grandmother for the small price of seventy cents and her snuff-box or that he was in the habit of attending funerals to pick the pockets of the mourners and of going to church that he might steal the pennies from the poor-box all
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her fondness for gin has also proved a serious bar to her rapid advancement and has given not a few of her customers the idea that she is not so eminently trustworthy as one having the control of the destinies of others should be
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the illustrious lady who is the subject of the present chapter came to the city of new york in eighteen fifty six and at once took lodgings and began business in the fortune-telling way
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so far from desiring to do any injustice to the fortune tellers of the metropolis i sincerely hope that my labors may avail something towards making their true deservings more widely appreciated and their fitting reward more full and speedy
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the cash customer was admitted by the madame herself who desired him to be seated for a few minutes until she had concluded her business with a boy of seventeen years old who had called to find out what would be the winning numbers in the next georgia lottery
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and the same questions were put to all so that the absurd differences in their statements and predictions result from the unmitigated humbug of their pretended art and from no misinformation or misrepresentation on the part of the seeker after mystic knowledge
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and rapidly muttered something in so low a tone that it was inaudible to her listener immediately the bible commenced to turn slowly towards her and soon had made a complete revolution thus expressing a very decided affirmative
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downand it conducts itself in a thousand ill-natured ways like a sulky child that has been waked up too early in the morning and not properly whipped into good behavior
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the nature of his secret cogitations as he walked along was somewhat as follows though he himself has never before revealed the same to mortal man
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i am positively certain that it is within a five at least it seems so to me you face up good luck and prosperity and you will be very rich before you die though i do not see how you are to get your money whether by business or legacy
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although probably she did not see more than one cash customer sitting solemnly before her still that one was quite as many as she could well manage at that time
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to enjoy a spirited argument with his bedstead and rocking-chair or to receive now and then a confidential communication from his bootjack but on the whole these upholstery dialogues do not satisfy the yearnings of the soul after the infinite
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he first said she was tellin the futur for a young gal then she was engaged with a literary man then a dry-goods merchant wanted to find out if his head clerk didn't drink but finally he said that madame l is a eatin of her dinner
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who is the keeper of a well-known house in sullivan street and whose name is not strange to the police an unrestrained business conversation ensued between her and the heroine of the comb which must have been interesting to the female listeners
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but both are as undeniable as convincing as stunning as in the best days of the little wooden midshipman the fortunate possessor of this inestimable wealth of knowledge secludes himself from the curious public in the basement of the house number one seventy two to nancy street
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of even its utility in the degenerate hands of modern practitioners hope had not however entirely deserted his heart but still retained her fabled position in the bottom of his chest near that important viscus
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your marriage card faces up this dark woman as i said before i don't see a great deal of money layin round her but there is plenty of money layin round you in the future somebody will die and leave you money within nine weeks not counting this week
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and the fringe of hair about the lower part of it is twisted into long corkscrew ringlets that fall low down on his shoulders he informed the customer that the madame was then engaged but he seemed undecided about the exact nature of her present employment
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and in almost every neighborhood in any part of the country there will be one or more old women who delight in mystifying the young folks by telling fortunes in tea-cups by means of the ominous settling of the grounds
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fearing to trust himself to a stage or car lest the careless conversation of the unthinking and the reprehensible jocularity of the little boys who hang about the corners of the streets which intersect the sixth avenue
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