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Show A Wonderful !Iaii. William Kingston, of Ditch-beat, Somersetshire, England, wan "the most wonderful of nil that wondrous krew." Concerning him a writer of the London Chronicle says: I FJt half a sheet of paper, with pen and ink. on the floor before him. He threw off his shoes as he sat; took the ink stand in the toes of his left foot (having been born without arms), and held the pen in those of the right. He then wrote three fine lines better than most can with the fingers. Ha feeds himself, and can bring both his tnwit or his broth to his mouth by holding the fork or spoon in his toes. He showed me how he shaves. He can dress and undress himself. He is a farmer by occupation; milks his cows with his toes, cuts his own hay Hnd binds tip the bundles and carries car-ries it about the field for his cattle. In saddling and bridling his horse he does it with his teeth. Ho is so strong in his teeth that ho can lift ten pecks of beans with them, and he can throw a hammer as far with his feet as most people can with their hands. |