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cal? To please some, it should be 
lively, and I would fain please so 
favourite a portion of my readers — 
to please others, it should be learned, 
for even learned ladies may not, per¬ 
haps, disdain to take advantage of 
the precepts of this little book. But, 
in attempting to please all, I may, 
perhaps, please none — this is an 
awkward predicament, and I must, 
therefore, indulge the hope that, al¬ 
though the opening address may not 
prove wholly satisfactory, the advan¬ 
tages to be derived from the Tele¬ 
graph of Flowers may plead for the 
imperfection of my style. 
“ First, then, let me observe, pre- 
