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VOL. 10.
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A Twilight Thouhgt.
BY BDRUNGTON B. WALE, ESQ.
If yon bright orbs which gem the night,
Bo each a blissful dwelling sphere,
, Where kindred spirits re-unite,
Whom death has torn asunder here ;
, .rifow sweet it were at once to die,
And leave this weary world afar !
Mix'd soul in soul to cleave the sky,
And soar away from star to star.
But 0 ! how dark, and drear, and lone,
Would seem the brightest world of bliss;
If wandering through each radiant zone,
We failed to find the loved of this !
If there no more the hearts may twine,
Which death's cold hand alone can sever
Those stars would then in mockery shine,
More hateful since they shine forever !
It cannot be ! each hope, each fear,
Which lights the eye, or clouds the brow,
Proclaims there is a happier sphere
Than thia bleak world which holds us now,
There is a voice by sorrow heard,
When heaviest weighs life's galling chain ;
That voice is God's unfailing work,
" The pure in heart shall meet again."
Well, should this trembling flesh decay,
Beyond, or time, or death, or pain,
The soul shall seek a sunnier day,
Where the death-parted meet again !
Then welcome be the holy hour
Which calls me to yon starry sphere !
And gives my spirit wings to soar,
And roam with kindred spirits there !
Laying Him Out.
During the summer, lome years ago, an old
quadroon woman came up to the office of an
out hotel rather late one night, when the clerk
accosted her with Well, aunty, what do you
want V
I is come up to lay out dai man in No. 41,
replied the woman.
' No 41,' said the clerk, you are mistaken;
there is nobody dead here, and No 41 only ate
his supper a little while ago.'
' Go way, massa,' said the quadroon : 'don't
fool wis me; you know I ain't gwine to tell
people dar is anybody dead in dis house. Make
one of your waiters show me to de room.'
' Well, said the clerk, who was always in
for a bit of fun ; here, Tom, show this woman
up to No. 41.' Tom obeyed, and showed her
to the room.
It being very warm, the door and window
were both open, and a candlo burning in the
crate threw a dim light around the room, giv
ing it that appearance which the apartment
of the sick generally present, lhe white iheet
which was thrown over the supposed corpue nil-
fed up the picture, and gave assurance to the
old Quadroon woman that all was right. The
waiter having left her, she took the candle and
approached the bedside. No. 41 happened to
be a man of very pale complexion, and breathed
almost imperceptibly. The old woman having
taken a hurried glance, proceeded to get the
wash bowl and towl, and filling the former with
water, she placed it on a chair near the bed
side. Dipping the towel in the basin, she said,
' I guess de gemram wo nt want sbavin by de
look ob Ms smove chin,' and swashing the wet
towel over his face, she commenced to wash
him.
' What the thunder are you about V exclaim
ed the supposed corpse, rising up in bed. 'Who
the devil are you, and what are you doing here!1
The quadroon screamed, in her fright overturn
ed the chair and wash-bowl, and then stood
with her mouth wide open, staring wildly at
the supposed dead man.
4 What axe you doing hare, you old wretch,
you V thundered No. 41.
Why I came to lay you out, massa,' said
the woman, recovering from her flight ; but
bless de Lord, you bab come to life.'
' Lay me out !' exclaimed the astonished No.
41 ; 'if you don't leave here, you old hag, I
will Jay you out, to a certainty.' And seizing
a boot ho made an evident demonstration of put
ting his threat in execution, while the old wo
man rushed down the stairs, and running a
gainst a couple of waiters, tumbled them over
very unceremoniously.
What the devil w the row V asked the clerk,
who had bean anxiously expecting the denoue
ment. The old woman explained the ridiculons mis
take. she: had made, saying it must be No. 41 in
de other hotel, and left, while the cletk nearly
plit his sides laughing at the joke. N. 0. Pi
cayune. Man creeps into childhood bounds into man
hood, and takes a thundering quick leapinlo old age
From U;e Alexandria Gazette.
Witchcraft in New Jersey.
The following report of a trial in West Jersey
for witchcraft, is preserved in an Almanac pub
lished in the year 1807. The trial took place in
Burlington county, in the 1730, a little more than
a century ago, and as an incident of the "good
old times" of which we often hear, has some inter
est for the modern reader. We find it in the
Mount Holly Mirror.
Were there no other reason for promoting an in
crease of knowledge, it would be desirable for the
sake of humanity only, to give such information
as exhibits the singular ignorance of former ages
and the improvements of succeeding generations.
The following account taken from the Pennsylva
nia Gazette, of October 1730, is inserted to evince
not only the absurdity, but the cruelty, of a super
stitious error which about that period infected not
merely the common people,.but the expounders of
law and dispensers of justice. We may now flat
ter ourselves that the terror of witchcraft is no
more ; and that'a poor woman may be both old
and ugly without being in danger of hanging for
being too light in the water, or drowning for being
too heavy ;
Bcruonton, Oct. 12. 1730,
" Saturday last, at Mount Holly, about eight
miles from this place, near three hundred people
were gathered to see an experiment or two tried
on some persons accused of witchcraft. It seems
the accused had been charged with making their
neighbors' sheep dance in an uncommon manner,
and causing hogs to speak and sing psalms, etc.
to the great terror and amazement of the King's
good and peaceable subjects in this province ; the
accusers being very positive that if the accused
were weighed in scales against a Bible, that the
Bible would prove too heavy for them, or if they
were bound and put in the creek, they would swim
the said accused, desirous to make their inno
conce appear, voluntarily offered to undergo the
said trials, if two of the most violent of their ac
cusers would be tried with them.
"Accordingly the time and place were agreed
on and advertised about the country ; the accus
ers were one man and one woman ; and the ac
cused the same. The parties being met, and the
people got together, a grand consultation was held
before they proceeded to trial, in which it was a
greed to use the scales first ; and a committee of
men were appointed to search the men, and also
the women, to see if thoy had anything of weight
about them, particularly pins.
" After the scrutiny was over, a huge great Bi
ble, belonging to the Justice of the Peace, was
provided, and a lane was made from the Justice's
to the scales, which were fixed on a gallows erect
ed expressly for that purpose right opposite to the
house, that the Justice's wife and the rest of the
ladies might see the trial, without coming amongst
the mob ; and after the manner of Moorfields, a
large ring was also made. Then came out of the
house a grave, tall man, carrying the Holy Writ
before the supposed wizard, etc. (as solemnly as
the sword bearer of London before the Lord May
or.) The wizard was first put into the scale,
and over him was read a chapter out of the book
of Moses, and then the Bible was put in the other
scale, which being kept down before, was imme
diately let go ; but, to the great surprise of the
spectators, flesh and bones came down plump,
and out weighed that great book by abundance.
"After the same manner, others were served,
and their lumps of mortality severally were too
heavy for the big book plump they came down.
"This being over, the accusers and the mob,
not satisfied with this experiment, would have the
trial by water ; accordingly a most solemn proces
sion was made to the mill pond, whero both accused
and accusers, being partially stripped of their
clothing, were bound hand and foot, and each
placed in the water, lengthways from the side of
a barge, having for security a rope about the mid
dle of each, which was held by a person in the
barge. The accused man being thin and spare,
with some difficulty began to sink at last, but the
other three swam very lightly upon the water. A
sailor in the barge jumped out upon the back of lhe
man accused, thinking to drive him to the bottom;
but the person bound without any help, came
up some time before the other. The woman ac
cuser being told that she did not sink, would be
ducked a second time ; when she swam as light
as before, upon which she declared that the ac
cused had bewitched her to make her so light, and
that she would be ducked a hundred times, but she
would duck the devil out of her. The accused
man being surprised at his own swimming, was
not so confident of hie innocence before, but said:
" If I am a witch, it is more than I know." The
more thinking part of the spectators were of opin
ion that any person so bound and placed in the
water, unless they were mere skin and bone,
would swim till their breath was gone, and their
lungs were filled with water. But it being the
general opinion of the populace that the little cloth
ing which the accused had on helped to support
them, it is said they are to be tried again the next
warm weather, entirely divested of it."
Proper Time for Slaughtering Ani
mals.
It has lately been discovered by a French chem
ist, that the flQsh of animals, which are killed in
the latter part of the night, will keep much longer
without salting, than it will when they are killed
in the daytime. This proves that the flesh is bet
ter fitted for keeping, when the life and blood is
taken from the animal, at the time the tempera
ture in the lowest, and the respiration is the least
active. Hence the reason that the flesh of ani
mals that have been highly heated, or hard driven,
will scarcely keep at all.
Navigating the Atmosphere.
The first, complete work upon this subject, is
one now on our table, by John Wise, a veteran
asronant of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Hitherto
we have had scraps of informoration from En
cyclopaedias and Magazines, relating to the art,
but here we have a Book on the subject, written
by one who has made many aerial voyages, and
who relates his own adventures. It embraces a
full history of the subject, commencing with the
ancient artificial flying pigeon of Archylus, the
Greek, and ending with the most recent experi
ments. The subject of navigating the air has occupied
the attention of many eminent men in almost ev
ery age of the world's history, but it was not until
a recent period that any success was promised to
an art which warmed the imagination of Bacon,
and engaged the attention of the sober Bishop of
Chester. In 1782 there lived at ancient Avignon,
in France, two brothers, young men, named Ste
phen and Joseph Montgolfier, who, being of an in
genious turn of mind, conceived the project of send
ing up small balloons inflated with rarified air, and
by many experiments they discovered that as they
enlarged their balloons, their ascending power be
came greater, and from this they went on increas
ing their size, until they constructed one of a ca
pacity of 23,000 cubic feet, and with it they sent
up some animals in a basket. The voyage was
successful, and this induced them to construct one
of gigantic dimension, viz, 74 feet high and 48 in
diameter. With this balloon a brave and cool
Frenchman, named M. Pilatre de Rozier, volun
teered to make a voyage two or three hundred
feet high, the balloon being secured by long cords
to the earth. He made several ascents, and on
the 21st May, 1783, he, along with the Marquis
d'Arlandes, made the first free ascent into the atri
al regions, rising to the height of 3,000 feet, and
made a succussful excursion over Paris, and finally
landed a few miles from where they started.
This formed an epoch in the history of serial nav
igation, and the fame of the Montgolfiers soon
spread over Europe and reached America. Al
though hydrogen gas was discovered long before
the Montgolfiers made their balloon, and its utili-
ty to me purposes oi oenai navigation naa oeen pre-
. I 1 . t It
viously suggested, yet it was never really applied
for that purpose, except for experiment in the fee -
ture room; but no sooner was the success of the
Ifnno-nlfir hallnnn snrnnd nhrnad. than th vir.
tnes of hvdrntrpn henamn annnrnnt. anri it wan
firmly believed bv many at that time, that balloons
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would soon be as common as crows. Napoleon
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lightened many an English matron, when he
threatened to cross the channel with his Boulogne
army in oaiioons. But nis paper wans," never
ventured to bame Uld Uingland s " wooden walls;"
nor does it appear that we are any nearer to "a
system" of aerial navigation at the present day,
than they were then. It is the opinion of Mr
Wise, however, that ballooning is about half a cen-
Inru nhpsrl nf thft a(r onrl iffho gnirih.f mon.
ical progress keeps pace with the onward march
of intellect, he says, " our children will travel to
any part of the globe without the inconvenience of
smone, sparKs ana sea sickness, ana ai me raie oi
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one hundred miles per hour.
It would indeed be a glorious thing if we could
career through the regions above at such a rate,
but our dreams are far more moderate than those
of friend Wise. We would be content with ten
mites an hour, onlv let us hare the wincr.
an independent pair. Then, when like Jeremiah
nf old. we were troubled in mind ami .mherl for
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a lodee in some vast wilderness," all that we
l I IK VV Film III rl IM1VH If J II V HWV 2 1 f 1 I I M ff 1 M M " J f
would have to do, would be to mount and be off,
" over mountain ana sea. oucn mings woum oe
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very pleasant everybody would be rejoiced if
such things could be done, and many strong argu-
ments may be used respecting the probability of
such things being yet accomplished, but not, in our
nnininn. safelv. eonvenientlv nor erinnnmirallv l,v
r , j , , ji-ji
r?oi 00o0i' ho , h,0 aar va
opinion of airortauts to the contrary notwithstand-
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The "revoloidalspindle," of Robjohn, which was
in the course oi construction at noDoKen, and
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wnicn was 10 oe propeaea wun iwo smau sieam
engines, some time this summer, has been sadly
damaged by the. late tornado. If this be the means
of preventing the balloon from enjoying her aeri-
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al flight by steam, we will regret it exceedingly,
Mr. Wise has made a great number of success-
ful mrialvovaaes. and his book is one of the most
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VUlUaUlC CTUI JUVilIIIUU UIIU Kf. 1U OUUlbC
to science as a historical and scientific work on
the construction of balloons, and the manner of
navigating them. There is one prominent and
useful fact brought to light, viz, that ballooning is
a conservator of health, serial navigation cured
Mr. Wise of disease of the lunns and chronic di3-
pepsia.and he is confident that it would be of great
uanaG ininviAa Thi0 va hfilieve iaa new Men.
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Ubiiiiiit wtiiiunum a.wiw " "
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hut rnrrert nnn rind fine aeree tiff W th science
and reason, but as these things trouble us not per
sonally, we have a longing eye but weak faith, to
mount the aerial ship, cleaving our way through
" the blue ethereal sky," at the rate of 100 miles
per hour, laughjng at your lazy locomotives and
steamboats era wlfng away below, as things good
enough for a more benighted age.
Scientific American
A very fat man ( for the purpose of quizzing
Dr. BofH ,) -asked him to prescribe lor
his complaint, which he declared was sleeping
with his mouth open. Sir,' said the doctor,
your disease is incurable Your kin is too
short, so that when you shut vour eyea your
mouih opens.' '
Gigantio Bedbugs.
The Albany Knickerbocker thus describes the
bedbugs to be met with on the Hudson river :
" The bedbugs during the summer season, which
navigate the Hudson in some of our steamboats,
are of such uncommon size, that they are some
times mistaken for a kind of rats. The deck
hands amuse themselves by shooting them with
shovels, after chasing them about the deck. One
of the largest we have heard of lately knawed a
sunder the night before last, the big tow line that
fastened the tow boat Jemima Wilkinson to the
deck, greatly endangering the lives of the crew.
Those described by the Knickerbocker, don't
begin with some we have heard of in this city.
A young man tells us of a great conflict he had
with a band of these midnight assassins, one night
last summer. He had just succeeded in getting
into a sound sleep, when he was suddenly arous
ed by a terrible picking at his body. After slaying
a number of the enemy, he endeavored to make
his escape, by retreat, when a large fat fellow,
who appeared to be the General, rallied new re
cruits, and the young man was taken up bodily by
his antagonists, who succeeded in carrying him to
the stairs, where, through the help of abed-fellow,
who had become alarmed at the confussion, the
poor fellow, made his escape out the front door,
and was seen running towards the Jersey City
Ferry, like a maniac. N. Y. Paper.
A down east chap, walking with a lady, stum
bled and accidentally fell. The lady, thinking to
commisserate his mishap, observed that she ' re
gretted his unlucky faux pas.' I did'nt hurt my
fore paws, replied he, 'it was my knee.
Judicial Proceedings in Caifornia.
A corespondent of the N. Orleans Delta thus
describes the remarkably free and easy way in
which justice is administered in California :
Some lime in December last, whilst Judge
was giving his decision upon the admissi
bility of some evidence, one of the lawyers
rose, and said :
"Your decision is perfectly ridiculous. You
just decided the question the other way."
Judge I fine you ten dollars, for your im-
I w m
pertinence.
Connsel. Here is the ten dollars (at the
' same lime throwing over the gold piece of that
denomination, wnicn lodged in nis nonors oo-
I SOm, and caused him to unbutton before he
could gel his fine.)
, Som,e olher q"?on soon arose, and whilst
the Judge was giving his decision with becom
. b. , be ,, . ,
me gravity, me lonowing scene uccureu :
6r Sherlfff . wishin lo interruDt
lhe Judge )g0 up t0 ,ho Clly Holei and bring
me down a brandy cock-tail, and one of the
best cigars."
Judge. " Sir hadn't you better wait until I
am through?
Juror.' Certainly, I'll watt ; but 1 m most
confoundedly thirsty.
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Juror , OolcanSl. don you know me ? I'm
from VVarren countv. Ohio, and was introducd
Q you lw0 year8 ag0 by Tom Cor win, at rearl
.
street Hotel, Cincinnati. I used to associate
with gentlemen ai home, but here ihey put me
on their infernal juries.'
Vol. W. Well, we will soon be through
wiih the case, and you will be relieved.
Juror. You used to be counted some in the
t rt r u. : - J T l
way 01 a ar-ngn., m uio ; aim i huc v
give ,he Vers, On the Other Side panic-
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ha?6 nol vet been aole to determine under what
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cty we are trying it.
Juror. ' Why, the law of common sense
the only law worth a d n anywhere.
In arguing the case before the Jury, one of
the counsel lor the deiense, alter speaKing oi
the manner in which California had been ac-
quired, dec, auuaea 10 uie asi numoer oi ouu
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CAV. Id! II1CU lit 3 CTB 411 I i W H T IVIIIIIg -.w,
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Qir nnnn Ihn vtrntfl em I nf tHnllfnrnia. With the
'idian sun of the nineteenth century shining
UDOn ut are w0 ,0 be governed by authorities
printed at Madrid two hundred years ago. and
recently dug up by some legal antiquarian from
t r iTf 1 1
the ruins of the bpanisn inquisition i win
you, gentlemen of the Jury, recognize this as
law ? t
Juror.' no sir-w noi oy a a u sigui. i
18 scarcely ncuo.-.iy.u .D .U.,D.
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SOOII LIURCU. WIU IUO UDlDlluain i;iiivm
What if Dirt?
Old Doct. Cooner. of S. C, used to say lo his
atudent, 'Don't be afraid of a little din, young
gentlemen. What is din? Why nothing at all
offensive, when chemically viewed. Rub a III
tie alkali upon that 'dirty grease spot on your
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coat, and it undergoes a cnemicai cnarrge and
becomes soap. Now rub it with a little water
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1 .1: . .. . . to naltha. nvaa.a ar-ian
nU 1( uisa jpem. , n e.w00,
water, or dirt. That is not a very odorous pile
of dirt, you observe there. Well, scatter a lit
tle gypsum over u and it is no longer dirty, ih-
oryihing you call dirt, is worthy your nonce as
students of chemistry. Analize it ! Analize
u ! It will all separate into very clean ele
ments.
Dirt makes corn, corn makes bread and
meat, and that makes a very sweet young lady
ihai I saw one of you kissing last night. So,
after all you were kissing dirt particularly if
she whitens her sKin wun cnaiK or lunecs
earth. There is no telling young, gentlemen,
what is dirt, i nougo i imm say mat ruuuuig
such stuff upon me Deauuiui smii oi a young
lady is a dirty practice. Poarl powder, L think
is wdr. of bismuihnoihtug but dirt.1
Thoughts for Toung Men.
Anything from the penn of Horace Manx,
is sure to be read and treasured. An exchange,
well says, 'here is a sentiment worthy to be re
corded in characters of gold.' The oxtracis
are from his lecture i, 'A few thoughts for a
young man.'
Man is not a savage or a pauper by lhe in
exorable fatality of his nature. He is surround
ed with erery form of the truest and noblest ;
wealth, or well being, for the body, wealth for
lhe mind, wealth for the heart. He is not of
plebian origin, but his lineage is from God; and
when he asserts and exemplifies the dignity of
his nature, royal and patrician titles sink into
nothingness and sink to oblivion. Men were
not created to porform twenty-four months of
bodily labor to twelve months of time, whilo
the intellectual and moral improvements, which
a single year might master, is spread over a
life.
The laws of nature and of God doom no man
to live on a potatoe a day ; but the productive
powers of the earth are as much beyond all the
demands of healthful sustenance, as the volume
of the atmosphere which encircles the globe is
beyond the capacity of human lungs. Men
were noi created to live in wigwams nor in
siies ; but to rise up and to lie down in dwell
ing of comfort and elegance. Men were not
created for mendacity societies, and alms hous
ses, and the gullows ; but for competence, and
freedom, and virtue; not for thougthless puerili
ties and vanities, but dignity and honor, for joy
unspeakable and full of glory.
Pnuishuicnt.
Sir George Staunton visited a man in In
dia who had committed a murder, and, in order
nol only to save his life, but what was of much
more consequence, his caste, he submitted to
the penalty imposed : this was, that he should
sleep seren years on a bedstead, without any
mattress, the whole surface of which was stud
ded with points of iron, resembling nails, but
nol so sharp as to penetrate the flesh. Sir
George saw him in the fifth year af his proba
tion, and his skin was like the hide of a rhi
noceros, but more callous. At that lime, how
ever, he could sleep comfortably on his "bed
of thorns," and remarked, that at the expiration
of lhe term of his sentence, he should, most
probably, continue that system, from choice,
which he had been obliged to adopi from ne
cesity. Not an Unusual Thing
An unsuccessful lover was asked by what
he lost his divinity : 'Alas !' said he, 'I flat
tered her till she got too proud to speak to
me.'
Why is twice eleren like twice ten ? Be
cause twice eleven are twenty-two, and twice
ten are twenty, too.
A Rational Conclusion.
An honest Dutchman, in training up his son
in lhe way he should go, frequently exercised
him in Bible lessons. On one of these occa
sions he asked him : 'Who vas dat would not
shleep mit Botibher's wife.'
'Shoaeph.'
Dai's a coot poy ! Vel, vat was de reason
vy he would not shleep mit her V ' Don't
know, sphoae he wasn't shleepy.'
A pair of Irishmen, who were recently trav
elling towards the Iron City, came upon a mile
board standing by the wayside, with this in
scription upon it : "13 Miles from Pittsburg,"
Supposing it to be a tomb-tonc, one of them
gently tapped the other upon the shoulder, and
in a low, sepulchral tone said "Tread lightly,
Jammy ; here lies the dead ; 43 years ould,
an' his name is Miles, from Pittsburg,"
" So, here I am, between two tailors," cried
a beau at a public table w here a couple of young
tailors were seated, who had just begun busi
ness for themselves.
" True," was the reply, "we are beginner,
and can only afford to keep one goose between
us."
Rather cool. -'You're a pretty fellow," said
tho owner of a wood pile to a thief, "to coma
here and steal my wood while I sleep."
"Yes," replied lhe thief, "and 1 suppose you
would stay up there and see me break my back
with lifting 'before you would offer to como
down and help me."
What IVext.
The Montreal Gazette translates from L'Av-?t
enir, a Canadian paper, the following extrabr-: '
dinary story, with the remark that the editors
have since heard the thing is dead :
Human Monster. Wo learn lhat a female
in the parish of St. Timoihy, has just gi?en
birth to an extraordinary child, which, gro
tesque horror, exceeds all that humanity has yet
produced in lhe way of infant phenomena. The
new born child has nothing human about it but
the head and arms ; the rest is literally a tor
toise, the back and belly covered with a hard
shell, and the feet perfectly resembling the paws
of the amphibious animal.
Like the tortoise, it can prolude and retract
the feet within the shell, and articulates sounds
which have not the slightest resemblance to the
cry of a now-born child. We are even told
that it can retract its head within the shell, un
til lhe top of it is level with the shoulders.
The parents, obeying the first sentiments of
honor, and dreading the disagreeble reputation
which this occurrence might attach to their t
namoi, desired to destroy this prodigy immedi-'
ately after its birth, but hating consulted their '
priest, they resigned themselves, and the child'.
! received bapiism, and is likely lo livft.
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