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_Soc. Chat._ Is that the _end_? Charming! Now we shall be able to
_talk_ again! &c., &c.
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OFF TO MASHER LAND.
(_BY OUR OWN GRANDOLPH._)
(THIRD LETTER.--C.)
[Illustration: Native Amusements--"A Poor House."]
LANDS-CAPE POLITICS.
Haven't time to send you much information this week, as We,--the firm
of Self and Corresponding Captain,--have had to write rather a heavy
packet for the Daily Graphic. I suppose you will have got Herr Von
GERMAN EMPEROR with you by the time you receive this from yours truly;
or His Imperialness may have quitted your,--that is, our, though
I'm here now,--hospitable shores. _A propos_ of Hospitable Shores,
remember me to the most hospitable of all Shores--Captain SHAW--of
the Fire-and-Water Brigade. My companions--"Jolly companions
everyone"--the Cautious Captain, or the Wily WILLIAMS, Doubting
Doctor, Energetic Engineer, all well. Wily WILLIAMS hard at his MS.,
giving an account of the "agricultural and mineral resources" of
the What-can-the-Matterbeland, "through the instrumentality of the
Chartered Company.
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