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Show an tag lc. ft mu a '.mm in the clothing bold, a proceed the winds; tinnt C eyer Lave a window in tic gable end of the love- or money ; but I have walked and life house? driven from Dartmouth Station all my Lord, sir ! exclaimed .l.e landlord, und never yet have seen her. with a mystified look, that was closed up That was ten years' ago, and pernaps the stone of that delightful time may be exninety years ago. It was in the old secret part How did you ever hear of that, plained, when I say that fair Bern siti is my andsomC, air? opposite to me niw, and a bachehasremnined My companion across die moor inBcrni wife. graceful formed me of it, I replied, somewhat beBessies persuasions, gentle and despite lor, wilders 1 by this circumstance, yet inclined continues to rove over the world in search to laugh at their absurdity, and think it of ns at the pleasure and novelty, leaving some witless creature cut m the tempest, old place, where I have settled down into when she ought to be in a mad house. respectable They used to put lights in it, sir, for Last night Bernie came home after a travelers, for, you nee, iu those days there three years absence to spend the holidays took it were no railways ; men nics-lwith us. It was dark and cloudy, but lie afoot, or on horseback. the carriage back and preferred to sent I made no answer. It was all very odd ; walk over the moor to the station. Me take it in any light and reason as I would, had not long to wait before his quick step no explanation presented itself? over tin gravel-bewalk, came I asked, after a few and vvecrunching Who is she ? welcomed him home again. had nur.i. u.-- rapid relict tion plunging me only lonesome walk. '"Its a confoundedly in fiie ft ir ti mystery. he said, as vve all sat over moor, that Bess, - t.h:!!, sir, tl oy d tdl of her about down to dinner, after Bernie had freshened hfiv." answered the v.' f j of rtiVhovt, his toilet. '"The deuce take it, some ; tor-h i leastways up cr looking woman met me and inquired aig fjr.'CTWly at the qm is she of her tacn tt's no luck to I if this was the twentieth of December. Mic might do if Vn.ind. Who knows was that old ghost the whether know don't I boliov e the liho of she hoa-- d us ; not t the servants used to term the gray tin.:, or mind telling job, corrected tlio but oddly enough she had a gray, in a voice her d wo, ...in. dropping goi look,'ht)d seemed afraid I would not moldy on lived whl .per. You see, Ive the truth. her tell the edge of the moor all my life, sir, and Here v. as ajurtmr adventure precisely aiul her g.an-dan.y moth. ;.i:rgmiidniot similar to mine, and equ illy inexplicable. I cfoie mo, so I ought to know the Whether there is any b.umkilion for my Hi at the of it. My graudam says belli f, or whether t lib wo. 1.1 will merely old h ns: over in Wyiuletvonli Dark is laugh at my lolly, I do not know, but- for V1 I mean- - and s pr.d Lady Cie-!ythe life of me I cannot slink.1 off the idea baimi-': i, it a, lo mi'.ry a haud'.mie my companion of that stormy walk of Dtc eu.l or. And, sir that nj.. i .t moor was the uneasy occupant of the over s li went nlfr.md to tho wiy. yi n .t, some other sphere. I never dross the moor j She vu comeback. i U lo u Be ire: v a, after dark, as frequently occurs when the k of an evening aeim-- the moor, has been good and the game not shy, na, e.',uiiig, but he never came, sport I dont expect that antique figure to that , ... H.irg fretted her life step out of the shadows, and that same ihi-i mi waiting for him. My voice to ask : i vw. ,. ;.;w ays begging them plaintive Will you tell me if this is the twentieth v lietH.r if v. a:, the twentieth of of December ? Ah, sir, Ive lost my count ; eult,vfe'yb.)(ly was afraid to do will you tell me truly ? ,v:.yxYi ry didnt ; but she must A oui it. some way. At last that kieryi! e knight had mar-,.- li GIANTS AND DWARFS. l.i ly, end poor Lady Cicely .in ft than ever, anti graudam says L..a ha I havd how she would The high and low," the majors and f.ir soipctindy to tell her truly the tnc.,t't of December, and-u- minors, of the genu3 Itomo , denominated and dwarfs, have from an early peil.iy in and day out watching the giants I riod, engaged the attention and excite i the to ooine iwvo.,s the moor. No IVeta, .Vic but on the twentieth of De- - astonishment of the be s'ij.ntd away unknown to any-- i historians, travelers, novelists, naturalists, all have exercised their pens upon these .wo aw fill storm, and the next day large and small specimens of humanity. .:t i her Juuhon the moor., Hesiod represents Gigantes, the sous of over glanced frequently Ccelua and Terra, as men of uncommon t er at tlie door as she whispered stature, and with strength proportioned to y iu my ear : sh: c vksos the moor every their gigantic size. They made use of y do H, of December, sir, added the rocks, oaks, and burning woods for their weapons, when they conspired against JupiWornri. milieu breath, starting involuntarily ter to dethrone him. Ilomer tells ns that ns a g...-- of wird shook the door and ratwhen extended on the ground, covtled i i window s. Ive never ventured Tityus, nbroud. but if I do, .sure as Ilnjiving, Lady ered nine aeres ; and that Polyphemus eat two of the companions of Ulysses at once, Cicely, i t her gray, musty clothes and and walked along the shores of Sicily, moldy cioak will meet up with me, I know that, so', tor youve seen for yourself and leaning on a staff which might havo served theres ;.l luck on the place, because nobody for the mast of a ship. Hector, the Troian baslri-iaWynde worth Park these fifty chief. Boio a mny year of mighty etrengtn. years, li along of tho gray woman begOf full ton cubits was the lances length ging i t i paidou, supplemented the hostess The same poet favors us with a description With most timid humility. of Achilla's spear : Dolly, give the gentleman seme supAnil now he shakes his irreat paternal per, interposed her husband, its best to spear XVnilrmo a,,.! hi;,ludi not a Greek conM tear. eat something after youve had such com From lMions rtmiai t..p an ash entire Oltl Ohimn ftUM an, I shap'd for l.i, in-: pany ; it aint tho iclliest of a night like A this. spear which stern .Vchl'lei only niolds. The ill. it h cf heroes, and tin ilieiid of holds. I acceded to the landlord's request and sat down to sapper, while his wife, now riiny talks of human skeletons twenty-fou- r high ; aud Kiri. her describes tho fairly laur.clie 1 euf ertnincd me with stories r elision of Pallas,- slain by Turnus, as Of the gray woman. tin, a ilc walls of Borne. Maximus, Bemie'laaghed at tho adventure when La heard of it. but all his ralliery did r.ottaka one of the Homan empen rs. is n presented tne way apprenensioa ana by lbs historians to have been eight feet look from the countenance of mino host high. The bracelets of his served as 11 nd his wife. Ite her and naught rise, If rings to adorn his fingers. wife voracity I may make bold to say, they persisted, was as remarkable as his size ; His he generally wor myself the incident was perfectly inex- - cat l'oity pouuds of flesh every day, and tlicable. The peculiarity of the woman's drank eighteen bottles of wine." His costume, and the accuracy of hei strength, too, was proportionate to his recollections presented an unsolved enigma. gourmandine lie could alone Every inquiry only served to deepen my wagon, anti with a blow of hisdraw a loaded fist he often perplexity. broke the teeth in n horses mouth ; he also The truth is, Bernie said that night, shattered the hardest stones between his after his pretty sister Bessie had e to her chamber and we were smoking a last fingers, and cleft trees vviih his hand. According to Scandinavian mythology the truth is, old fellow, that every oigor, giants servant and tenant on the place believes most existed before the gods. 'Tho two curious beings of the cW uiu.h r confirmly in that delusive female they have sideration aro Ilresvclger ainlMavin. Acchristened the gray woman. You cant get cording to the Scandinavian one of them on the moor on that the fornight for mer sits at the extremity 0fpoets, the heavens. y d f vvb-r.ia- mys-tcrbs;.- -. V-r- , 'U-- . , t . .h-t- v s ic, 1 t 1 I I .d'-u- ly . t -- 1 -- f'-- - n k.ttr cu-rir- the shield biferc tho sun, to hills from being burned, end the sea f;o:u being evaporated by (OTw neat. - ife who at hcat'ii extremist I . r c Mill broods o'er oceans swelling . .ire With giant form, and frequent !l.i.g-Th- e tempest from his eagle win .a. And that dark power, nfeoae ai. i.V -- laeid Before the sun's bright face is laid ; Screening from rt one. the liquid main, Eaeh shadowy hill, and gia-s- y plain. was at theoalytw..;. age of seems to have development, Ouin er TVodin, the greatest of the Scandinavian gods, is represented as slaughtering thousands of his enemies at a single blow. TypLon, the imaginary author of evil in Egyptian mythology, is described as a tremendous being. Notices of beings of gigantic stature occur in several parts of Scripture. In Genesis tch. ft) the sacred historian, speaking of the time immediately antecedent to the there were giants flood, informs us that on the earth in those days ; and also after Iu the book of Numbers, the spies that who were sent to ascertain the state of Canaan, returned to the commander with The land the following observations : through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we ei in it are meo of a great stature. And The, we in the saw the giant, the sons of Aosk. 17th chapter, lst Samuel, a deseriptijn is givm of a Philistine giant, who, aocording to the calculation of Bishop Cumberland, was somewhat aboCe eleven feet (.English) the maining unossB hibited a u.C She wasV; Fairy. and weighed hren-j- l portioned, and , Italian dwarf wjj,-- t . Signor Cspitjgj'y,' dwari. not teller Lo, r. -Cv- niM-Tigrano. an- . .a, save her fiuul lie hail m that into the - barga- , generality had 1 , 5 .. . Aj upon this f . occavien ' , M accomplishments oi of his person. T, whether she did cr I never look'd if Not look at has V trJtom then did youl,, -- Ipon him," his own life to reiietf. Good temper brightness islie,. over er of toil and the- rj - high. Travelers at different periods have fur- nished various accounts of giants. The first navigators by whom the Patagonians were observed, represented them as .being of colossal stature. Their accounts were partly confirmed raid partly contradicted the middle of by later vovegms. the last i cutury, (.'a..tu:i. Byron met with a number of Patagonians, of whom the men were not less than eight feet, and some even exceeded nine feet in height ; the women were from seven feet and a half to .lb-'..,- eight feet. -- SCL3E HIGH REITS It' THE ; Ten Styles, IA from Jibuti r' I d; This account was contradicted but even the accomplished ;.1 1,1 I offi- hundred or these people, scarcely dozen men are seen whose height Is untk'i live feet nine inches, though none have .ccently beep measured who exceed . six f ft ,'vv iciik niches. Hi lHutt gives an account of John o OPEW. FULL BED SINGLE BEE to i 'at- f Mid-dlut- Child of commonly called the Hale, from h iug born at the town of that . name in His hand, from the the end of lbs little lingtr. meato caipns sured inches; his palm eight and half inches. His height was nine feet. Dlemeibrock saw at Unvtclit a man who measured eight feet and a half; and Dr. Beeamus was introduced to a youth who was no irly nine fqeti Walter Parsons, porter tp King high. James I., was seven feet seven inches in One cf the Ki:-stature. of Prussias gigantic guards, a .Suede, measured eight feet and a half; and a yeoman of the Duke John Fn dciiilc at Biunswiek, Hanover, was of the same height. Several Irishmen, measuring from seven to eight feet, and upwards, have been exh.biteil in the country; tiic most. celebrated, whose skeleton is in the museum of Hie H. C. of Surgeons. was Charles Byrne, who went by the name of OBrien; he measured eight feet four inehes. He died at the age of twenty-twin 178S. His skeleton is eight feet high. Scheuohzen, who was unwearied in collecting organic remains to illustrate the Deluge, awakened much curiosity by stating that be had procured the remains of a man from a certain rock near CEningen. This fossil, which he called Homo diluvii testis, was afterward discovered by Cuvier to be a ialamander. Having noticed above some of the works of nature written in text, we will present to the reader some of her writing in nH character. Julia, the niece of Augustus Caesar, had a dwarf, called Coropas, who was not above two feet and a half high. About 1730, a dwarf was exhited only two feet eight inches high : she was bora in Salisbury in 1709. Buffon says that Rebe the dwarf of Stp.etsltrua. King qt. Lani-asinie- t 1 cers who conflicted the last survey of tho coasts of Patagonia, admit that the inhabitants are distinguished by their size. Captain Fitzroy observe a that among two or thre half re V BOSS by Wallis and Bougainville. It seems that there has been some exaggeration iu the accounts - HUTIKIta CHILD'S BED, ASK YOUB FCKfl- - TtKK tM DF.AI.EB for rr. , FOREST I nif i aca-- ' tio mm .int his vholmils russirat Itockfoi BJP j'.ranMWwug: is ' on lie ' me Jo! 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