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 and Sentiments. 6s Games of this kind with animals, fucceeded no doubt among the Saxons to the Roman gladiatorial fights, but few have imagined that the popular Englilh exhibition of the dancing bear dated from fo remote a period. The manufcripts lliow that the double pipe was in ufe among the Anglo- Saxons 3 with a little modification, and a bag or bellows to fupply the No. 41. Games of the Amphitheatre. place of the human lungs, this inftrument was transformed into a bag- pipe. Not the leaft curious part of this pi6hire is the town in the back- ground, with its entrance gateway, and public buildings. The Anglo- Saxon draughtfmen were imperfeftly acquainted with perfpe6live, and K paid