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A very accomplished lady, by the name of Air, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, was on the eve of departure from Boston, where she had been some months on a visit. A gentleman, celebrated for the frequency and felicity of his puns, was solicited by a friend of this lady to express his admiration in a farewell poem, which was, of course, expected to have been a poem of puns; but the parties were surprised to receive, in place of the expected jeu d'esprit, a grave series of compliments, conveyed in delightful poetry, but not one pun in the whole collection. This incident called forth the following