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118 even feet high, cbvered on the top with the finet now-white mulin, and decorated inide with diverified figures repreenting the fun, moon, and tars. Beneath this temporary dome, the coy maid reclines on a oft cuhion, in an eay poture, while the rarptured youth; couring through fancy's lawn, on the wings of expectation, and already anticipating the joys of connubial felicity, leans oppoite his able Dulcinea in a imilar attitude. The breathing intruments now wake their trembling trings to announce the coming of the Mulna, who enters the cene with an air of Characteritic olemnity: the muic gradually ceaes, till it's expiring voice is lulled into a profound ilence