High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut

LETTER XI.

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Visit to the Park Theatre--First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as written on the air, in the aerial feats of Mademoiselle Celeste--First shock at the exhibition of a Ballet Costume accompanied by the "twinkles" of Celeste's feet--with her pigeon wings, double-shuffles, gallopades, and pirouettes 117