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18               LETTERS TO our consanguinity, educed from him an invitation to me to participate in the hilarity of the approaching nuptials.

The parties to be concatenated, were his senior daughter and a puisne man from the visne. On the nuptial day, at the horal designation, the guests arrived at the cabaret, in wains, curricles, and other voitures.

The puisne folks of both genders exhibited themselves in the optimity of their attire. Ultimately the ecclesiastic who was to colligate the parties in indissoluble gyves, arrived. Hewas a sexagenary. His sable envelopes, his lugubrious countenance, his depilous cranium, the rotundity of his person, and the gracility of his crural organs, engaged my optics exceedingly. He coalesced the interests of the parties by confarreation; and in a brevity of time the doors of the refectory received patefaction, and the mensal board onerated with prog, cates and all kinds of cibarious articles, displayed itself to dazzled eyes, and esurient maws. This mensal structure was soon environed by carles, chuffs, clodpates, clumps, coggers, galliards, hoidens, hunks, noodles, citesses, oppidans, rustics, pickthanks, poltroons, rantipoles, skipjacks, tosspots, and ladies of ineffable pulchritude.

No sooner had a rogation for a benison by the concionator taken place, than all the implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such edacity, such gulosity, such ingurgitations, such omnivorousness of edibles, had never fallen under my vision in the antecedent part of my sublunary entity!

The fabaceous and other esculents had undergone thorough elixation. The poculent liquids had been well edulcorated – the gallimaufries, and ragouts were also highly delectable, and gave quite an acuity to the gusto of the eaters.