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SQUIRE PEDANT. 27

Lutariousville, May 6, 1843.

AMICAL SIR, – At the termination of my prevenient epistolography, I narrified how, at the inchoation of the hyemal season, I entered upon an emphyteutic condition with a ponent proprietor of a section of uberous terra firma, and how Indagator, freed from every traumatic vestige, was occluded in a stramineous kennel.

Although not perite in orthology, I will impart to you connusance of my position whilst commorant with the agricultor. And such a protraction of vitality! The parvitude of his habitat, its fuliginous louver, its rimose walls, and the tenuity of the thoral greith or integuments, were indeed asthenic defensatives against the algidity induced by boreal perflations.

Our edibles consisted of azymous jannocks, fusty chitterlings, and a tenuous and insapory soup. The don of the domicil was fastuous, brigose, and possessed of a most apodictical autarchy: indeed he was a genio, a curioso, a conformity to whose beneplaciture was crabby, aye, a quodlibet. He coerced me to moil, during the diurnal period, like a moyle, and harassed me with antelucan evigilations. Being multionomous or polyonomous, I will impart to you his agnomination, which is Fustilug-Dizzard-Cullion-Rodomont-Picaroon-Pyrrhonist-Misanthropos. The appellation of his consort, was Fussock-Impudicity-Immundicity Virago.

His tetricity, carency of bonity, and of xenodochy, and his aphilanthropy fayed not his accolents, and the metics of his convicinity.

Having become an acephalist, and fatigated with incessant toil, I protracted my obdormition according