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Excerpt from Sketches of Young Ladies: In Which These Interesting Members of the Animal Kingdom Are Classified, According to Their Several Instincts, Habits, and General Characteristics
Important points, their bonnets, gloves, shawls, and other equally interesting portions of dress. It was in vain that we waited, for more than ten years, in expectation of this philosophical theme being taken up by Cuvier, Dr. Lardner, or Mrs. Somerville. At last, tired of the delay, we determined on trying the subject ourselves, especially as we have always felt a singular pleasure in examining the diversities of the fair sex. There was, however, a difficulty started at the beginning, which seemed wholly insur mountable. How, thought we, are we to find hot-press paper sufficient to contain the charac ters of every young lady in this island? This consideration detained us two whole calendar months, for six hours a day, with our feet on the fender, our elbows on our knees, and our face in our hands. At last, after intense thought, we came to the conclusion that it might be possible to discover in the youthful.
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