Whosoever sleeps there of a night shall be crowded by walls which rub off into a faint feather-bed of the flavor and consistency of geese used whole, and have for his feverish breakfast in the morning a version of broiled ham as racy of attic-salt as the rasher of BACON'S essays.

Who would ask anything racier in its kind than the former's "Father O'Flynn"?

He should be a fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy than a cloddy appearance.

Published in 1715that is, its first two partsit has now two centuries of popularity to its credit, and is still as racy with humanity as ever; but, though Le Sage was a rapid and voluminous writer, over this one book which alone the world remembers it is significant to note that he expended unusual time and pains.