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 and as lender as the thread from their ditaffs; but they were all idle inventions, and erved but to pas the time. And, as for one peron really poeed there are an hundred, an hundred fanatics for one truly inpired, and an hundred dreamers for one gifted with genuine econd ight—o, for one authentic anecdote, there has ever gone about the neighbourhood of the Giant-mountains an hundred lying reports, among the vulgar, concerning Number-Nip. It was the Countes Cecilia, Voltaire’s contemporary and pupil, for whom the lat interview with the pirit, in our days, was reerved; it took place jut before he dived, for the lat time, into the world below.

This lady, charged with all the fahionable aches and pains which the effeminate daughters of Teuto owe to the French kitchen and manners, was on a journey, with two healthy blooming daughters, to Carlbad. The mother was o impatient to try the virtues of the pring, and the daughters