Yours, G.
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"Cometh Up as a Flower."
Very likely it does; but there is one thing that don't go down as
the Flour--and that's the price of bread.
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ASTRONOMICAL CONVERSATIONS.
[BY A FATHER AND DAUGHTER RESIDING ON THE PLANET VENUS.]
NO. II.
_D_. OH, FATHER, what funny things are caused by the revolution of a
planet!
_F_. Well, revolutions are not _always_ such funny things, as those
wretched creatures on the earth up there must have found out by this
time.
_D_. How dry you are, pa! I didn't mean the revolutions _on_ a planet,
but the revolutions _of_ a planet.
_F_. Well, a distinction, I admit. But what are you driving at?
_D_. Several things. For instance, seven revolutions of the planet Earth
produce a new number of PUNCHINELLO--a funny thing, as you often say
yourself.
_F_. Well put, truly.
_D_. And seven revolutions also give rise to the _Revolution_ itself,
which (being a woman all Right in head and heart) I regard as about the
funniest thing going.
_F_. "Funny," child? Why, I never saw any thing less so.
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