156 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
the letters find their way into court. 
Here the counsel holds it up with a 
flourish of his hand; a wretch creeps 
into the witness-box and swears to 
your autograph ; you are cast in the 
court; and, what is worse, lose caste 
at court and in all fashionable society, 
merely for writing what every body 
else has said. 
ii Observe, then, how valuable tins 
Floral Telegraph becomes; if you 
wish to annoy and abuse your friends, 
suppose you should perceive that 
your dearest female friend who has 
been with you, like Juno s swans, 
k still coupled and inseparable, had 
taken away from you one of your 
