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SERIOUS PuS.-Punning is accomplishment which
may be learned by any who has toerabe memory
quickness OF perception 1t is mechanical art But good
pun that shall not only please but sasy-give the mind
sensation Of Completeness not made every day. Thefo
lowing from LEeH HUNT contains that pcrfec
in its kind


"To love matter Of fact is TO have lively of the


vsbe and immediate love fiction, is to have lively
Of the possible and remote. Now these senses


they exist ALL necessity real the the other
The only proof of either is in perception To blind
imam the most visible coors exist than the hues Of
fairy tale to a destitute Of fancy. To Of fancy
who sheds tears tale the chair in which he sits has
'uer existence in its way than the story that him.
His being is his proof in both instances"


HuSr is evidently serious in this is trial of
gcnuity a literary pastme, but serious argument Yet
he had himself work with humor aorethough make
rsbe jingle Of words he could not have been
h-Connecfcut Courani.