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 only species of water which the little butler had ever heard called for in Headlong Hall. The mistake was not attended with any evil effects; for the fluid was no sooner applied to the lips of the fainting fair-ones, than it resuscitated them with an expedition truly miraculous.

Order was at length restored: the audience took their seats, and the craniological orator held forth in the following terms: