H. W.

_Dr. Parr's A. E. A. O._ (Vol. vii., p. 156.).--The learned doctor indulged

in boundless exultation at the unavailing efforts of mankind to give

significancy to the above cabalistical combination of vowels. The

combination was formed in the following, manner:--S[A]MUEL P[A]RR engaged

his friend H[E]NRY H[O]MER to assist him in correcting the press; and so he

took the "A. E." of their Christian names, and the "A. O." of their

surnames, to form a puzzle which, like many other puzzles, is scarcely

worth solution.

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