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Show BRIDAL CtSTOIS A CEXTCRT AGO. To begin with the lady : Her locks were strained upwards over an immense cushion, and sat like an incubus on her head, and plastered over with pomatum, poma-tum, and then sprinkled over with a shower of white powder. The height of this tower was somewhat over a foot. One single white rosebud lay onits top, like an eagle on a hay stack. Over her neck and bosom was folded a lace handkerchief, fastened in front by a pin rather larger than a copper cent, containing her grandfather'a minature set in virgin gold. Her airy form was braced np in a satin dress, the sleeves as tight as the natural skin of the arm, with a waist formed of a bodice worn outside, whence the skirt flowed off, and was fastened at the top by an am-plo am-plo hood. Shoes of white kid, wilb peaked toes, and heels of two or three inches elevation, inclosed the foet, and clittered with spangles, as the little pedul members peeped curiously out. Now lor the swain : IUb hair sleeked sleek-ed back and plentifully beflowered, while his queue projected like the handle han-dle of a skillet. - His coat was sky blue silk, lined with yellow; his long vest of white satin, embroidered with gold lace; his breeches of the same material, and tied at the knee with pink ribbon. Whi'.e silk stockings, and pumps, with laces and ties of the same hue, com-i com-i pleted the habiliments of the nether limbs- Lace ruffles clustered around his waist, a portentous frill, worked in correspondence and bearing the minature mina-ture of his beloved, finished the genteel appearance. |