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 occasionally favored with visions of better times, past and to come.

To the reign of false curls, succeeded that still more egregious outrage—that climax of coxcombry-powder, pomatum, and pigtails! The former to give the snows of age to the ruddy face of youth; the latter being, I suppose, an attempt of some bright genius to outdo nature,