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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 763, 21 February 1870, Page 4

Gems from American Reporters.—Many treasures of imagination with which American reporters enricli their productions are too good to be lost. Here is an exquisite specimen from an account of a fancy ball:—"Mrs C , though masked, was easily detected by the soul-felt laugh which springs up like the sea-foam from a gay heart." The beauty of the following comparison, taken from the description of a new organ, is only equalled by its originality:—" The swell _ died away in delicious suffocation, like one singing a sweet song under the bed-clothes." A western reporter, describing the condition of a family, indulges in the following charming strain of metaphor •—"There is no apparent trail of the serpent, and the proverbial skeleton is too closely veiled in the dark recess of the deepest closet to daze the eye with its glitter, or grate upon the ear its sepulchral rattle/'