On inquiry if there way no provision for females, my friend called my attention to this remarkable psychological fact, namely: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FEMALE PUNSTER.

[Footnote 8: All this description of the females bathing is in the highest taste of the voluptuous; particularly the latter part: "Qual mattutina stella esce de l'onde Rugiadosa e stillante: o come fuore Spuntò nascendo già da le feconde Spume de l'ocean la Dea d'Amore: Tale apparve costei: tal le sue bionde Chiome stillavan cristallino umore.

"A male-child, A female-child, Male-descendants, Female-descendants.

The monsters flew to arms at the word of command, nothing daunted, forming a close circle round their camp and Queen, the strongest of the males being placed outermost, and the females inmost, but all armed alike, and all having the same demure and melancholy faces.

Fourteen figures, among which are four females lamenting, and St. John bearing the palm.

Love, considered itself, is a desire and consequent tendency to conjunction; and conjugial love to conjunction into a one; for the male-man and the female-man were so created, that from two they may become as it were one man, or one flesh; and when they become a one, then, taken together they are a man (homo) in his fulness; but without such conjunction, they are two, and each is a divided or half-man.

Male-relations, Female-relations.

"Male-servants, Female-servants.

[Illustration: TURKISH FEMALE SLAVE.]

It is by the Jews and their families, the females assisting, that a coarse kind of cloth, employed for their own garments, and also sold to strangers, is spun and woven.

The male-tree spoke in the day, and the female-tree in the night, and whoever had a wish, went thither to have his desires accomplished.