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cursion to the haimts of Spectabile the main spring of 

 our complicated mirth machinery and always with the 

 countenance of a judge presiding a criminal court or 

 as Mr. Corning defined him: As an undertaker who 



would have lost his wife If ? he had loved her 



when she lived. That genial man whose seriousness 

 was so rigid in appearance, could be dissolved with the 

 simple chemical preparation of two or three good jokes 

 and one or two glasses of good Sauterne wine, or in 

 presenting him with a bouquet of spectdbile, or any 

 other flowers, and in presenting him the flowers or a 

 French " Bouillon " and a glass of cherry wine, and tell 

 him, " This for fraternity's sake ! " This word, that 

 I think I used for the first with him, would literally 

 galvanize him. Let him " Requiescat in pace." All 

 thy friends will remember thee as long as they live, 

 especially thy " connecting link " L. M. Here I 

 only speak for myself, and very likely the other links 

 of our chain feel the same. So, Adieu ! adieu ! ! per- 

 haps ? resurgamus in Cypripedibus ! We shall " Re- 

 suscitate in Cypripediums !!".... 



Shall I continue to give the diagnosis of our mem- 

 bers ? Mr. Corning, our president, was in some respects 

 a fit match for our departed friend, the " spectdbile" 

 to whom Mr. Dinsmore, of Staatsburgh-on-the-Hud- 

 son, could be added to complete a triumvirate of con- 



