Madame, we have said to name it for yourself, Josephine St.Auban Jeanne Marie Fournier.

Moreover, Madame, it is advise that for a baby so remarkable a godmother is necessary.

I take my pen in hand to inquire of madame whether in the kindness of her heart madame could come to see us and be present at this christening of this child most extraordinary.

I have the assurance also of Hector that the remarkable qualities of this baby will warrant the presence of madame.

A reply _poste restante_, address on St.Genevieve in Missouri, will arrive to your faithful and obedient servant, "JEANNE." Before this singular document had been half concluded there were sounds of shifting chairs, bursts of stifled laughter.