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 Tn this city-the quality folks and the folks of no quality-or as Joe Jinllins calls Il the china folks and the crockery folks. Well, this ball was china ball and no crockery was to be admitted the china gals al! sci upon crockery and said she should be put eat. Cfoekery said she wouldn't budge a foot-china said she should, and so they had it, Which carried the point is more than can tell, but guess, Sally, if l had sent you card to ball, china or crockery, and any fuss was made about it. they should pay back the money before I'd start an inch for them.

 There is another kind of dancin all the rage here called waltzin. cannot describe it exactly, but the short and long Of its that feller and gal stand up in the middle of the room all alone. the music begins and they hug each other round the waist and whirl round the room like house on .ire-they keep goin,till bimby they get clean gone and cant stand it no longer. Then they set down and another couple goes over the exhibition, but what pleasure there is in such whirling dance cant for the life of me imagine. l axed q tallowy- looking gal just after she'd done waltz iag to tell me what there was in a waltz she liked so much. 70, sir,' said she rolling up her eyes, "tis so sentimental" Sentimental! marm,n says I, ,e1 guess l don't understand you!' eThen stand up. Sir says she, and waltz with me and you will feel it." ssNo by chorks, marmp' says I, q don't like to chew up on such sentimentality!' The gal took out her quizzing glass aid looked at me as II she d look me through, but guess she found her match for. stared her out of countenance without any quiz zing glass or spectacles either. These are the gals, Sally, that make fun about the Cape God gals, dancing in their stoekins and feet, but to my notion there aint any comparison for deeeney be- tween that and waltzln-dont you say 90 too?

 Besides waltzin every real New York lady must know how to play Oil q pian- CT. This is a sort of machine made of mahogany and is about as big as q meal-chest, inside of it there are wires so that by thumpin with the fingers on some little blocks outside, it makes a kind of music. But to my ears the mu- sic of a spinin wheel is vastly more a.. greeable, but it wouldn't do to tell the gals here so. l Shouldn't care about marvin one of thescs of pianner gals, cause why? all the pianers in the world wont learn a woman how to darn coat or make a pudding and whats the use of wife that don't know how to do that?

 You no need to be afraid of my being caught by New-Yorl gal. My notion is still for the New England gals, let em laf as much as they will at their green bonnets and guessing-but can tell em what it is when they ketch Enoch Timbertoes they cath a weezel asleep. But l wont say nomore for fear my let fer should get miscarried, or be opened by some peeping Jackson postmaster, so good by and believe me,

 Yours till Christmas.

 ENOCH TIMBERTOES. 