_Order 2d._ The _Conclamantes_, which, for the benefit of your more English readers, I will remark, is a Latin word, meaning--_those who clamor together_. They possess two qualities or traits in common with certain birds, such as rooks, crows and blackbirds, that is, they are _gregarious_ and marvellously _noisy_; for whenever they collect together, there is such a simultaneous and apparently causeless chattering in the highest key of their voices, as none could believe but those who have had the good or ill fortune (I will not say which) to hear it. But there is this marked characteristic difference. The latter utter sounds significant of sense, and perfectly intelligible, often very sprightly and agreeable too, when you can meet them one at a time; nor is juxta-position at all necessary to their being heard; for you will always be in ear-shot of them, although separated by the entire length or breadth of the largest entertaining-room any where to be found. Their proper element--the one wherein they shine, or rather sound most--is the atmosphere of a "_sware-ree_" party, or a squeeze: but as to the particular purpose for which Nature designed them, I must e'en plead _ignorance_; not, my good sir, that I would have you for one moment to suppose, that I mean any invidious insinuation by this excuse. _Order 3d._ The _Ineffables_.--I almost despair of finding language to describe--even the general appearance of this order, much less those mental peculiarities by which they are to be distinguished from the rest of their sex. But I must at least strive to redeem my pledge, and therefore proceed to state, that they rarely ever seem to be more than half alive: that their countenances always indicate (or are designed to do so) a languor of body scarcely bearable, and the most touching--the most exquisite sensibility of soul; that even the most balmy breezes of spring, should they accidentally find access to them, would visit them much too roughly: that to speak above a low murmur would almost be agony, and to eat such gross food as ordinary mortals feed upon would be certain death. As to their voices, I am utterly hopeless of giving the faintest idea, unless permitted both to resort to supposition and to borrow Nic Bottom's most felicitous epithet of "a sucking dove." You have only to imagine such a thing, (it is no greater stretch of fancy than writers often call upon us to make) and then to imagine what kind of tones "a sucking-dove" would elicit; and you will certainly have quite as good an idea of the voice of an Ineffable as you could possibly have, without actually hearing it. No comparison drawn from any familiar sounds can give the faintest idea of it, for it is unique and _sui generis_. This order serves the admirable moral purpose of continually teaching, in the best practicable manner, the virtue of patience to all--who have anything to do with it.