89. Straight. 90. Seed.
90. Cede. 91. Seen. 91.
Seine. 92. Seize. 92. Cease.
93. See. 93. Sea. 94.
Cole. 94. Coal. 95. Bourne.
95. Born. 96. Bite.
96. Bight. 97. Floe. 97.
Flow. 98. Bell. 98. Belle.
SELECT READING.
1. The most skillful gauger I ever knew was a
maligned cobbler, armed with a poniard, who drove
a peddler’s wagon, using a mullein stalk as
an instrument of coercion to tyrannize over his pony
shod with calks. He was a Galilean Sadducee,
and he had a phthisicky catarrh, diphtheria, and the
bilious intermittent erysipelas.
2. A certain sibyl, with the sobriquet of “Gypsy,”
went into ecstasies of cachinnation at seeing him
measure a bushel 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.
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.
