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    derful country of puppets often came fresh on her mind in brilliant and laughing shapes . One day , perhaps a year or two after the foregoing related events , it happened that a small party of juveniles was to assemble at the house of the worthy physician , Dr . S ., on Twelfth Night , to eat cake , and draw for king and queen . When Mary was dressed to receive her little friends , she sat in the room where stood the cabinet , and she could not

    help going towards it to contemplate the Nutcracker . AH at once she exclaimed , almost involuntarily , fc Ah ! Mr . Pivot , if you really were alive , I would not act like the princess Pearloprice : I would not repulse you because you were no longer a handsome young man !' At the instant she finished speaking , there was such a sudden uproar

    that she fell nearly fainting upon a sofa . When she came to herself , she found her mother beside her supporting her , who said , * Why Mary , love , what ' s the matter , are you ill ? I hope that you have not laced yourself too tight . Do you know godpapa is come , and brought with him his nephew from Tonbridge Wells ; put on your gloves , and let us go ; and mind and behave like a young lady . '

    They found the commissioner in his best wig , and a nevv snuffcoloured coat , smiling with pleasure , and holding by the hand a youth , apparently two or three years older than Mary . The dress of this youth was the dress of Nutcracker , but the form and tlie face were sufficiently different , indeed they were both very tolerably handsome . Mary became red as fire on observing this young man ; and redder still , when , as they were dancing the first set , Louisa playing the niano . he beiner her partner , asked her to show him the cabinet chamber .

    When the quadrille was finished , they ran to the cabinet , hand in hand , and there he fell upon his knee , saying , * Dear young Jady , you see at your feet tjie now liappy Pivot , whose life you saved on this very spot . You promised not to repulse me as did the princess Pearloprice , and then my original form returned . Sweetest young lady , grant me your hand ; share with me my kingdom and my crown ; reign with me in the castle of Alicumpane , where I am the monarch . * Mary raised him and said , in a low voice , ' You are very agreeable and good , and , as you have a nice kingdom , I will accept you for rny husband . ' In due course of time , Mary was wedded . Whether she was fetched in a golden coach , drawn by silver horses , —whether twenty-two thousand puppets , ornamented with pearls and diamonds , danced at her marriage , —whether she still reigns queen at Alicumpane Castle , must be left to the brilliant imagination of the courteous reader . Jt is my own private opinion that she is the happy wife of a celebrated and most respected barrister , who resides near Bedford-square . W . L . T .

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    The Nutcracker . 29

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/29/