was guided by the fame intention towards me-so we reciprocally thank’d each other. She was at the top of the stairs; and feeing no chichefbee near her, I begg'd to hand her to her coach-fo we went down the ftairs, stopping at every third ftep to talk of the concert and the adventure Upon my word, Madame, faid I, when I had handed her in, I made fix different efforts to let you go outAnd I made fix efforts, replied fhe, to let you enter-I wish to heaven you would make a feventh, faid I-With all my heart, faid fhe, making room Life is too fhort to be long about the forms of it-fo I inftantly stepp'd in, and fhe carried me home with her -And

And what became of the concert, St. Cecilia, who, I fuppofe, was at it, knows more than I.

I will only add, that the connection which arofe out of the translation, gave me more pleasure than any one I had the honour to make in Italy.

HAD

THE DWARF.

PARIS.

I never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter: fo that being pretty much unprepoffeffed, there must have been grounds for what ftruck me the moment I caft my eyes over the parterre-and that was, the unaccountable sport of nature in forming fuch numbers of dwarfs-No doubt, fhe sports at certain times in almost every corner of the world; but in Paris, there is no

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end to her amufements-The goddefs feems almoft as merry as fhe is. wife.

As I carried my idea out of the opera comique with me, I measured every body I faw walking in the streets by it-Melancholy application! efpe→ cially where the fize was extremely little-the face extremely dark-the eyes quick-the nofe long-the teeth white-the jaw prominent-to fee fo many miferables, by force of accidents driven out of their own proper class into the very verge of another, which it gives me pain to write down -every third man a pigmy!-fome by ricketty heads and hump backsothers

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others by bandy legs-a third fet arrested by the hand of Nature in the fixth and seventh years of their growth

a fourth, in their perfect and natural state, like dwarf apple-trees; from the first rudiments and stamina of their existence, never meant to grow higher.

A medical traveller might fay, 'tis owing to undue bandages-a fplenetic one, to want of air—and an inquifitive traveller, to fortify the fyftem, may measure the height of their houses -the narrowness of their streets, and in how few feet fquare in the fixth and feventh ftories fuch numbers of the Bourgeoife eat and fleep

together;