sententiously expressed in
the purest monikin language. The effect of the report was, to cause all
hostile preparations to be abandoned.

No sooner did the boat of the port-captain return to the shore with the
news that the strange ship had arrived with my Lord Chatterino, my Lady
Chatterissa and Dr. Reasono than there was a general burst of joy along
the strand. In a very short time the king--alias his eldest first cousin
of the male gender--ordered the usual compliments to be paid to his
distinguished subjects. A deputation of young lords the hopes of
Leaphigh came off to receive their colleague; whilst a bevy of
beautiful maidens of noble birth crowded around the smiling and graceful
Chatterissa, gladdening her heart with their caressing manners and
felicitations. The noble pair left us in separate boats, each attended
by an appropriate escort. We overlooked the little neglect of forgetting
to take leave of us, for joy had quite set them both beside themselves.
Next came a long procession composed of high numbers, all of the
"brown-study color." These learned and dignified persons were a
deputation from the academy, which had sent forth no less than forty
of its number to receive Dr. Reasono. The meeting between these loving
friends of monikinity and of knowledge, was conducted on the most
approved principles of reason. Each section (there are forty in the
academy of Leaphigh) made an address, to all of which the Doctor
returned suitable replies, always using exactly the same sentiments, but
varying the subject by transpositions, as dictionaries are known to be
composed by the ingenious combinations of the twenty-six letters of
the alphabet. Dr. Reasono withdrew with his coadjutors, to my surprise
paying not a whit more attention to Captain Poke and myself, than would
be paid in any highly-civilized country of Christendom, on a similar
occasion, by a collection of the learned, to the accidental presence of
two monkeys. I thought this augured badly, and began to feel as became
Sir John Goldencalf, Bart., of Householder Hall, in the kingdom of Great
Britain, when my sensations were nipped in the bud by the arrival of the
officers of registration and circulation. It was the duty of the latter
to give us the proper passports to enter into and to circulate within
the country, after the former had properly enregistered our numbers and
colors, in such a way as to bring us within the reach of taxation. The
officer of regist