A Conversation for Fate, Faith, and Phrenology: Fanny Crosby Meets George Combe

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Recumbentman

Combe was no charlatan to respectable Boston, but it is still possible that he used the favourite trick of mind-readers everywhere: inside information. Could some well-wishing nurse have quietly hinted that this boy was a numbers wizard, and this girl was a poet? Perish the thought.


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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - eureka What? You're suggesting that maybe somebody used a trick like that for GOOD? smiley - winkeye

Good call. smiley - laugh


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