Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

"I rifles light as air."

Those who remember the Leonine verses of the tenth century, or the jingling quibbles of the first James, will place the ensuing love-letter and reply on the same shelf.
P. Folio.

MADAM,
Most worthy of estimation!
After long consideration and much meditation of the great reputation you possess in the nation, I have a strong inclination to become your relation. On your approbation of this declaration, I shall make a preparation to remove my situation to a more convenient station, to profess my admiration; and if such observation is worthy of observation, and can obtain commiseration it will be an aggrandizement, beyond all calculation, of the joy and exultation of

Yours,
SANS DISSIMULATION,

THE ANSWER.

SIR,
I perused your oration with much deliberation and a little consternation, at the great infatuation of your weak imagination, to shew such veneration, on so slight a foundation. But, after examination and serious contemplation, I suppose your animation was the fruit of recreation, or had sprung from ostentation to display your education, by an odd enumeration, or rather multiplication, of words of the same termination, tho of great variation, in each respective signification.
Now, without disputation, your laborious application, to so tedious an occupation, deserves commendation: and, thinking an imitation a sufficient gratification, I am, without hesitation,

Yours,
MARI MODERATION.