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22 LETTERS TO in the procession to the inhumation of the defunct, but maintained the most astounding adiophory and ataraxy. Posterior to their inhumations, he exhibited his carte-blanche, variegated with multitudinous numerical additaments, most ocularly indicant of his questuary proclivity. After the impletion of his nummary reticle, he made his exit.

Yours, most amicably,

LORENZO ALTISONANT.

Prairieville, Occ., August 30, 1842.

SUASORY SIR, – After a crastination of a sennight at the habitance of my cognation, I and Indagator, who had become extremely adipous by his adhesion to the culinary department, resumed and protracted our pedestrious locomotion, for many diurnal revolutions, witnessing nothing neoteric, with the salvo of once beholding in a villakin, a rabblement consisting of queans, giglets, malkins, cinderwenches, galliards, mumpers, cotqueans, skipjacks, belamours, cuttles, michers, clumps, doodles, cosmopolitans, curmudgeons, ninnyhammers, tatterdemalions, and slubberdegullions. All these gave attention to the prestigiations of an engastrimuth or gastriloquist, and geomancer. He gave autopsy that he possessed complete cognition of metoposcopy,ophthalmoscopy, chiromancy, rhabdomancy, arithmancy, pyromancy, hydromancy, capnomancy, and onomancy. He was also an excellent oneirocritic. His recluding the future terrestrial allotments of the motley congeries which environed him, effectuated singular phases in their phizes.