of Latent Sympathies
which was connected with the unknown fluid just treated on, might be
referred to a committee on the whole, in order to make some provision
for the wants of a time when monikins should finally lose their senses.
There was nothing to say against a proposition so plausible, and it
was accepted nemine contradicente, with the exception of a few in the
minority.

There was now a good deal of whispering, much wagging of tails, and
other indications that the real business of the meeting was about to be
touched upon. All eyes were turned on Dr. Reasono, who, after a suitable
pause, entered a tribune prepared for solemn occasions, and began his
discourse.

The philosopher, who, having committed his essay to memory, spoke
extempore, commenced with a beautiful and most eloquent apostrophe to
learning, and to the enthusiasm which glows in the breasts of all her
real votaries, rendering them alike indifferent to their personal ease,
their temporal interests, danger, suffering, and tribulations of the
spirit. After this exordium, which was pronounced to be unique for
its simplicity and truth, he entered at once on the history of his own
recent adventures.

First alluding to the admirable character of that Leaphigh usage which
prescribes the Journey of Trial, our philosopher spoke of the manner
in which he had been selected to accompany my lord Chatterino on an
occasion so important to his future hopes. He dwelt on the physical
preparations, the previous study, and the moral machinery that he had
employed with his pupil, before they quitted town; all of which,
there is reason to think, were well fitted to their objects, as he was
constantly interrupted by murmurs of applause. After some time spent
in dilating on these points, I had, at length, the satisfaction to find
him, Mrs. Lynx, and their two wards, fairly setting out on a journey
which, as he very justly mentioned, proved "to be pregnant with events
of so much importance to knowledge in general, to the happiness of the
species, and to several highly interesting branches of monikin science,
in particular." I say the satisfaction, for, to own the truth, I
was eager to witness the effect that would be made on the monikin
sensibilities, when he came to speak of my own discernment in detecting
their real characters beneath the contumely and disgrace in which it
had been my good fortune to find them, the promptitude with which I had
stepped forward to their re