To which she, by letting fall her handkerchief, replies--

"Ask papa and mamma."

This is only an imperfect outline of the code which the inventor asserts

may be introduced with wonderful advantage in the streets, the theatres, at

churches, and dissenting chapels; and, in short, everywhere that the

language of the lips cannot be used.

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