116 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
might be made up, and, unless it had 
been clearly proved that one fair 
Dame had called another ‘ ugly , 1 
even Rival Queens might offer and 
receive the Kiss of Peace. Happy, 
happy Golden Age, when people 
might eat their words, and no one 
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knew their letters. But, when Cad¬ 
mus brought forth his invention, ush¬ 
ered into the world with such an 
accumulation of typical horrors, the 
Golden age was gone ; still the labour 
of Manuscript writing, and the few 
who knew how to write, did notallow 
the poison to disseminate too widely. 
It was the Silver Age of Papyrics, and 
styles, and plates smeared with wax, 
