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gOOSe honey, and read. The guesis eginio talla; ne of them describes in an under-tone, for the enlightenment of Encolpius, the different personages at the table, and telis tales of the hostes Fortunata Trimalchio

boy recites sonae o Trimalchio' poetry tolli company, and receives his Deedom as areWard. Presently Trimalchio get u Domthe table to visit the neX room, and con-Versation ecomes generat. One of theguest deplores the practice of bath in every lay. They rais drin k, and teli necdotes of friend who have lately ted. nother laments the degenerac of the times, and

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on education.

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courses o the state of his boweis, illi a disquisition o the mos essi caci ous cathartics. Later e lectures o Corinthia bronges, glass, andaric-a-brac. He has a lave come in an read the ossicia repor of hat ad happene o Trimalchio' estates the precedinidav, - this in imitationis the Roman Acta Diurna. Trimalchio thera discusses poetry, rite an impromptu Verse imself, and gro in sonae ha dogmatic ith ine, ulter a number of aphorisms. GDal dum brautes thei and the heepare the mos laborious to Xen e we thebread, eat and to the sheep the lothe wewear. What araham e then, it is that an oneshould eat mutton or ear a tuni l As tobees, Pthin them almos divine forethev canspit honey. . . . That 'S hy the Sting, OO, for there sis rose ithout iis horns. The guest no begi tesseel the effect of the wine. Ascyltos quarreis illi ne of the

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os declaimer enter lio recit Do Homer, in costume. Trimalchio telis the stor of the Trojan War.

'Diomede and Ganymede ere tWΟbrothers, hos sister as Helen Aga

memnon carried her os and surreptiliouslysubstituted a hind in her place, o Diana. So, as Homer telis Us, the Trojans and Tarentines fought together, but Agamemnon conquered, and arried his aughter Iphi genia to Achilles, hicli drove 'ax ad asyou hali presenti See.

At his, a bolle calf sirought in and an

actor followed to represen 'aX. Simulatingmadness, he rusties at the calf with drawnsword, slashes it into lices, and then presenis a iece to ach of the astonished uesis. The desseri follows: WeetmeatS, PaStry, apples, grapes, and Other fruits and then more Wine Thos present egi to teli stories. Niceros relates his ad Ventures illi a ere

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his place at table. Trimalchio, ecomingmaudiin, has his ill rought in and read, and after telling hat arrangement he has made for his buriat, egi iis to weep. Allris Dor the table an folio hi to thebath-hous foris ot bath, after hicli they

specta disti for imself and presenti falisto quarrelling illi Fortunata, flings a uinat he head an abuses her in a Volle os invectives Peace is restored more Wine is drunk, and finali Trimalchio stretches himselfout a though lyin in state, the orn-blower play a funera march, and with his the dinne endS.

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A ROMA REUEL.