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"No, verehrtester Herr Herausgeber, in no wise! And now let the sympathizing reader judge of our feeling when, in place of this same Autobiography with "fullest insight," we find Six considerable PAPER-BAGS, carefully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginning at Libra; in the inside of which sealed Bags lie miscellaneous masses of Sheets, and oftener Shreds and Snips, written in Professor Teufelsdrockh's scarce legible cursiv-schrift; and treating of all imaginable things under the Zodiac and above it, but of his own personal history only at rare intervals, and then in the most enigmatic manner.
Only once, in place of a neat drawing of mine, in China-ink, representing Miles asleep after dinner, and which my friend Bunbury would not disown, I found a rude picture of myself going over my mare Sultana's head, and entitled "The Squire on Horseback, or Fish out of Water." And the fellow to roar with laughter, and all the girls to titter, when I came upon the page!
The following remarks should, therefore, be taken as very tentative and preliminary, and they are, naturally, fragmentary. China-ink drawing of the eighteenth century. Collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin.
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