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tatoe will tend to preserve the great requisites of unity and coalescence in the various constituent portions of my animal republic; and that the hemlock, if gathered by mistake for parsley, chopped up small with butter, and eaten with a boiled chicken, would necessitate a great derangement, and perhaps a total decomposition, of my corporeal mechanism."

"Very well," said the Squire: "then you are necessitated to like Mr. Escot better than Mr. Panoscope?"

"That is a non sequitur," said Mr. Cranium.

"Then this is a sequitur," said the Squire: "your daughter and Mr. Escot are necessitated to love one another; and unless you feel necessitated to adhibit your consent, they will feel necessitated to dispense with it since it does not appear to moral and political econo-