of peas and separate
saccharine tomatoes from a heap of peeled potatoes, without dyeing or
singeing the ignitible queue which he wore, or becoming paralyzed with
hemorrhage.

3. Lifting her eyes to the ceiling of the cupola of the capitol to
conceal her unparalleled embarrassment, making him a rough courtesy,
and not harrassing him with mystifying, rarefying, and stupefying
innuendoes, she gave him a couch, a bouquet of lilies, mignonette,
and fuchsias, a treatise on mnemonics, a copy of the Apocrypha
in hieroglyphics, daguerreotypes of Mendelssohn and Kosciusko, a
kaleidoscope, a dram-phial of ipecacuanha, a teaspoonful of naphtha
for deleble purposes, a ferrule, a clarionet, some licorice, a
surcingle, a carnelian of symmetrical proportions, a chronometer with
a movable balance-wheel, a box of dominoes, and a catechism.

4. The gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier and a parishioner
of mine, preferring a woolen surtout (his choice was referrible to
a vacillating, occasionally occurring idiosyncrasy), wofully uttered
this apothegm: "Life is checkered; but schism, apostasy, heresy and
villainy shall be punished." The sibyl apologizingly answered: "There
is a ratable and allegeable difference between a conferrable ellipsis
and a trisyllabic diaeresis." We replied in trochees, not impugning her
suspicion.

SELECT READING.

1. One enervating morning, just after the rise of the sun, a youth
bearing the cognomen of Galileo glided into his gondola over the
legendary waters of the lethean Thames. He was accompanied by
his allies and coadjutors, the dolorous Pepys and the erudite
Cholmondeley, the most combative aristocrat extant, and an epicurean
who, for learned vagaries and revolting discrepancies of character,
would take precedence of the most erudite of all Areopagite literati.

2. These sacrilegious _dramatis personae_ were discussing in detail a
suggestive and exhaustive address, delivered from the proscenium
box of the Calisthenic Lyceum by a notable financier on obligatory
hydropathy, as accessory to the irrevocable and irreparable doctrine
of evolution, which had been vehemently panegyrized by a splenetic
professor of acoustics, and simultaneously denounced by a complaisant
opponent as an undemonstrated romance of the last decade, amenable
to no reasoning, however allopathic, outside of its own lamentable
environs.

3. These peremptory tripartite brethren arrived at Greenwich, wishing
to aggrandize t