"
"Well, you _may_ tell him, then, you absurd thing!" returned FLORA,
blushing; and, with another embrace, they parted, and the deeply
momentous interview was over.
(_To be Continued._)
[Footnote 3: Author of "The Grave."]
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[Illustration: ROMANCE AND REALITY.
IN THE LIBRARY.
_Jones, (reading.)_ "THE GLASS OF FASHION AND THE MOULD OF FORM, THE
OBSERVED OF ALL OBSERVERS."
_Jenkins, (with enthusiasm.)_ "PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF MY WIFE!"
IN THE GARDEN.
THIS IS MRS. JENKINS, IN HER MORNING TOILETTE.]
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OFFICE SEEKING.[4]
BY ICHABOD BOGGS,
THE NEW AMERICAN POET.
PREFATORY NOTE.--The reader is requested to judge the following
production mildly, as it is the first effort of a youthful genius (16
years old in looks and feeling, 42 by the family bible and census.) The
author has felt that America should have a new kind of verse of its own,
and he thinks he here offers one which has never been used by any other
mortal poet. It is called the duodekameter. Perhaps it may be proper to
add that the following is _poetry_.
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