" We will quote another anecdote illustrative of the good effects of exercising the kindly feelings.

The affection and sweetness which characterize his airs were inherent in his disposition, and the following anecdote accounts for the prevalence of those delightful qualities in his vein of melody:"Mozart loved his parents, particularly his father, so tenderly, that every night before going to bed he used to sing a little air that he had composed on purpose, his father having placed him standing in a chair, and singing the second to him.

A dubious anecdote bears, that he even regretted he had not rendered Virgil into blank verse, and shows at the same time, if genuine, how far he must now have disapproved of his own attempt to turn into rhyme the Paradise Lost.

Whether I tell him that they cook puppies in China, that there are ducks with fur coats in Australia, or that in some parts of the world it is the pink of politeness to put your tongue out on introduction to a respectable stranger, Pummel replies, "So I suppose, sir," with an air of resignation to hearing my poor version of well-known things, such as elders use in listening to lively boys lately presented with an anecdote book.

His cheerfulness was inexhaustible, his wit keen and lambent without being acrid, his speech clear, fluent, and genial, and his fund of anecdote commensurate with his remarkable narrative power.

" Another anecdote current in Yorkshire is interesting, showing how fully superstitions of this kind are believed:"A woman was lately in my shop, and in pulling out her purse brought out also a piece of stick a few inches long.

In the following anecdote substitute equivalents for expressions in italics: 103.

At each fresh detail that I note, Musgrave's anecdote gains ever more and more probability; and my heart sinks ever lower and more low.

Anecdotes galore there are of his humanity to dogs and cats and other members of our larger family.

Bordeaux had been appointed[e] ambassador to the parliament; after the inauguration of Cromwell, it became necessary to appoint him ambassador to his [Footnote 1: Here Louis XIV., to whom we are indebted for this anecdote observes; that it was the cardinal's maxim de pourvoir, à quelque prix qu'il fût, aux affaires présentes, persuadé que les maux à venir, trouveroient leur remède dans l'avenir même.

An anecdote recurs to me of old Youssef, Bashaw of Tripoli, illustrative of the phlebotomizing system now under consideration.

An interesting anecdote relative to this custom is to be found in the chronicles of Matthew Paris.

DEWLAP (Dick), an anecdote teller, whose success depended more upon his physiognomy than his wit.

To illustrate the latter case I have an anecdote à-propos.

"And do reflect for a moment," said miss Villiers, "from whence could proceed any pride in mea poor curate's daughter;at least any pride worth speaking of; for the difficulty my father had to make me feel myself on an equality with a miller's little daughter who visited me, did not seem an anecdote worth relating.