The pr?tor and his family, including Cleorita and Oviata Arcos, with the Four, awaited, on the morning succeeding the eventful day of Manito’s animalculan introduction, the coming of the Dosch of Manatitla in the audience chamber² of the house, dedicated³ by Correliana in aptitude⁴ to the developing powers of the tympano-microscope, “the auriculum.” After a short delay of expectation, the courier falcon⁵ appeared at poise⁶, from which in swift descent it came in downward incline direct to its perch⁸ on Correliana’s wrist. But a second elapsed before the tympanum re?choed in cheery tones of salutation the voice of our expected visitor. Our attention attracted to the field of magnifying reflection, discovered a coterie¹⁰ of animalculans, of nearly the same size, grouped about the speaker. With the salutation, “Afferens scientiam errantes gigantes,” he addressed us as follows:—

For ages untold¹¹, our race have waited in patient expectation for the morning’s dawn when they could salute¹² yours face to face, and impart to you a source of happiness that in life realizes communion with immortality¹³. To us has been vouchsafed¹⁵ this coveted¹⁶ privilege, and it shall be our study to improve it to your advantage. Notwithstanding the malapropos accident—casting upon Correliana an arch glance that

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