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LETTERS TO bibation, of aqua vitæ. Localities replete with cades of skinks and bub, are thronged with bibbers, whose comates, condisciples, and compotators, are cockneys, dolts, fanfarons, maudlin jobbernowls, temulent wantwits, linguacious borachios and bateful barrators. They inchoate the revelry, with xerophagy, and the manducation of ragouts, to give an acumen to their gusto for inebriating potations.

But as a sequence, what stultiloquence, what random tentations at the enodation of some vulgar enigma! what mutual pugnacity, issuing in testy concertations and sanguineous pugilisms! Such rendezvous and sodalities are terrestrial pandemoniums!!

I terminate my protracted epistolography by imparting to you the verity that feminality has effascinated me, and that now catenated by the byssine vincture of Hymen, I reside in my own habitat, environed by the maximum of subcelestial felicity.

Yours, with an ardent valediction,

LORENZO ALTISONANT

Floresenceville, Occident, June 10th, 1844.

My obese and debonnair Esq., – In the finale of my precedaneous epistolography, I imparted to you the verity, that feminality had effascinated me, and that, held by the byssine vincture of Hymen, I am now the beatific occupant of my own habitat, environed by the maximum of subcelestial felicity. I will now impart to you an enarration of the concatenation of the occurrences that imparadised me thus.