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IN FIFTEEN LETTER-BOXES.

FIRST LETTER-BOX.

GIDIUS ZEBEDAUS FIXLEIN had just for eight days been Quintus, and fairly commenced teaching duties, when Fortune tabled out for him four refreshing courses and collations, besprinkled with flowers and sugar. These were the four canicular weeks. I could find in my heart, at this hour, to pat the cranium of that good man who invented the Dog-days' Vacation. I never go to walk in