enna.

The Journey of Trial is so peculiar to the monikin system, and it might
be so usefully introduced into our own, that it may be well to explain
it. Whenever it is found that a young couple are agreeable (to use a
peculiar anglicized anglicism), in all the more essential requisites of
matrimony, they are sent on the journey in question, under the care of
prudent and experienced mentors, with a view to ascertain how far
they may be able to support, in each other's society, the ordinary
vicissitudes of life. In the case of candidates of the more vulgar
classes, there are official overseers, who usually drag them through a
few mud-puddles, and then set them to work at some hard labor that is
especially profitable to the public functionaries, who commonly get the
greater part of their own year's work done in this manner. But, as the
moral provisions of all laws are invented less for those who own
126,952 3/4 acres of land, divided into meadow, arable and wood, in just
proportions, than for those whose virtues are more likely to yield
to the fiery ordeal of temptation, the rich and noble, after making
a proper and useful manifestation of their compliance with the usage,
ordinarily retire to their country seats, where they pass the period of
probation as agreeably as they can; taking care to cause to be inserted
in the Leaphigh gazette, however, occasional extracts from their letters
describing the pains and hardships they are compelled to endure for the
consolation and edification of those who have neither birth nor country
houses. In a good many instances the journey is actually performed by
proxy But the case of my Lord Chatterino and my Lady Chatterissa formed
an exception even to these exceptions. It was thought by the authorities
that the attachment of a pair so illustrious offered a good occasion to
distinguish the Leaphigh impartiality; and on the well-known principle
which induces us sometimes to hang an earl in England, the young couple
were commanded actually to go forth with all useful eclat (secret orders
being given to their guardians to allow every possible indulgence, at
the same time), in order that the lieges might see and exult in the
sternness and integrity of their rulers.

Dr. Reasono had accordingly taken his departure from the capital for the
mountains, where he instructed his wards in a practical commentary of
the ups and downs of life, by exposing them on the verges of precipices
and in the del