New-Year's Calls--A real Yankee's New-Year's Treat of Dough-nuts and Cider--Jonathan's ideas of the real difference between a real lady's House and Furniture and the House of a stuck-up Parvenu--Jonathan's ideas of Love and Ladies 99 LETTER XI. Visit to the Park Theatre--First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as written on the air, in the aerial feats of Mademoiselle Celeste--First shock at the exhibition of a Ballet Costume accompanied by the "twinkles" of Celeste's feet--with her pigeon wings, double-shuffles, gallopades, and pirouettes 117 LETTER XII. Jonathan receives an Invitation to a Fancy Ball--Dilemma about the Dress--Choice of a Character, &c. 129 LETTER XIII. Jonathan Slick and the Grand Fancy Ball--Jonathan in the character of an Injun, and Cousin Beebe in the character of Jonathan--Cousin Mary as Jonathan's Squaw--Jonathan among Kings and Queens, Spaniards, Turks and Jews--Jonathan meets his pussey Cousin in the character of a Turk--Jonathan cuts his pussey Cousin 133 LETTER XIV. Advice to Jonathan from the Humstead--Jonathan's Criticism on his Brother Sam's book--The Ennui of Jonathan in good Society--Jonathan's entree into a Milliner's Establishment, and sad mistake about a Side-saddle 143 LETTER XV. Jonathan visits the Milliner Girl--Reflections about her Situation 154 LETTER XVI. In which Jonathan shows up the Hardships of Sewing Girls--Describes a Tammany Hall Ball--Milliner Aristocracy and Exclusiveness--Informs the reader how Miss Josephine Burgess took a tall man with whiskers into her Establishment, who took her in in return--The desperation of a little Apothecary--His Marriage, and the Ascent of Miss Josephine Burgess from the front store to a work room a little higher up 156 LETTER XVII. Jonathan gets Ill and Homesick--Resists all entreaties to go to Washington, and resolves on going back to "the Humstead" with Captain Doolittle 173 LETTER XVIII. Jonathan's Arrival in New York from the Onion Beds at Weathersfield--Jonathan puts up at the Astor House--His notion of that great Heap of Stones--Jonathan's Ideas of a New York Cab, and the usual quarrel of a Stranger with Cabmen--A Sensation is created at the Astor 180 LETTER XIX. A live Yankee and the Parisian Danseuse--Fanny sends her Card and Jonathan makes a call--Down East Yankee and French-English rather hard to be understood--Jonathan quite killed off by Fanny's Curchies and Dimples--A little sort of a Flirtation--An Invitation to see Fanny in Nathalie, which is accepted 188 LETTER XX.