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24 LETTERS TO Tumefaction, with ineffable celerity, became visible in his physical organization. In the utmost brevity of time, I administered to him an alexipharmic, succeeded by an anacathartic, and laved his crinose, but lacerated tegument, with an absinthiated lotion. This pharmacy produced immediate sanation.

Yours, immutably,

LORENZO ALTISONANT.

Loquacityville, Nov. 12, 1842.

SAPIENT SIR,– In my epistle immediately precedaneous to this, I gave you a lineation of the casualty that betided Indagator in our transcursion of the savanna, and what aidance I imparted to him by an alexiteric potion. The assault upon him was not exitial; but in his resilience from the dipsas, he suffered the exarticulation of his crural organ, which, in his circumcursations, extorted the most streperous ejulations.

In the progress of our itineration, we arrived in an oppidan community, where our migration was to have a temporary cessation. Here, on a dominical day, I resorted to a locality where audition was to be given to a certain ecclesiastic. The conflux was ample. The quiristers inchoated the initial sonata with too much altitude of intonation, which produced considerable raucity in their guttural orifices, before its termination; especially during the antiphone. Subsequent to this cantation, there was a general taciturnity, which was broken by the orison of the concionator.