fastened below the knees, and very neat little
boots with high heels which might have been
made at Paterson's. A purple cloth cinctures
her waist. She is tall and slim,—and but for
the hair and "molds" might, let us say, have
married well,—as well as Miss Biffin. But
perhaps she did.

Number Six is "A Spotted Negro Prince,"
whose history is thus briefly told: "A Negro
Prince Son of Hanjason Caper, King of
Yelhoeomia; in Guiney. He was taken by the
Pirates, at the age of 8 Years old and Made his
Escape From them Upon the Coast of Virginia;
where he was Entertain'd by Colonel Taylor,
and there Learn't to Speak pritty Good English.
"Whose Body is of a Jet Black Intermixt with a
Clear and Beautifull White, Spotted all Over.
He was Sold in London and Show'd Publickly at
the age of 10 years in 1690. Seen there by James
Paris and Again in the year 1725." Colonel
Taylor seems to have made the Prince pay for the
entertainment he gave him. It was not a very
hospitable act to sell the little fellow, but if he really
resembled the painting, there is some excuse for
his host, the piebald quality of the luckless young
African being so very vividly delineated.

In every age, I suppose, there has been a
pig-faced lady. Such a personage used to be
the stock-in-trade of nearly every showman, no
fair was complete without one, and a searcher
after the marvellous, like James Paris Du
Plessis, would not be long without encountering
a lusus of that description. Accordingly
Picture Number Seven exhibits "A Woman with
a Hog's face," and this is her story: "This
Mounster was a Gentlewoman of a Good family
and fortune, very tall and well proportioned of
a very fine fair white Skin, Black Hair on her
head and Eyebrows, but her face Perfectly
Shaped like that of a Hog or Sow, Except it
was not Hairry when she went abroad she
Covered her face with a Large Black Velvet Mask.
She had a Grountling Voise like that of a Hog,
very Disagreable, but Spoke very Distinctly,
she Lived in St. Andrew's Parish in Holborn,
London." Her dress is a very gay one: an
under garment of crimson satin, over which
flows a blue silk train; her crimson sleeves are
lined with blue; her bodice is black with zigzag
embroidery. She wears lace ruffles, and a blue
ribbon, curiously plaited, is on her head, of an
embattled form, with crimson knots and long
lace streamers or lappets. A saffron-coloured
apron falls from her very slender waist. She
holds a mask in one hand and a fan in the other,
and, but for her unmistakable snout, would be
good-looking.

Number Eight introduces us to the brother-
in-law of James Paris Du Plessis, described as
"A Child in the form of a Lobster," and how
this resemblance came to pass is thus set
forth: "This Monster was born of a Woman
near Moorfields the Mother of it was named
Mary Rosel wife of James De Senne a french
Protestant of Deep in Normandy one of whose
Daughters I Married. The occasion of this
Monstrous birth was Caused by her Loosing
her Longing, for a very Large Lobster which
she had Seen in Leadenhall Market for which
she had been Asked an Exorbitant Price, when
she Came Home she was Taken very ill her
Husband being Acquainted with the Subject
Run Himself to the Said Market bought the
same Lobster and Brought it to her. At the
Sight of which she fainted, and when Recovered
she could not endure the Sight of it, the
Meschief was done when her Time of being
Delivered she Brought forth this Monster which
was in all Respects like a Lobster BoyId and Red
Excepting that instead of a Hard Shell or crust
it was a Deep Red Flech with all its Claws and
Jonts it Died as soon as Born. I James Paris her
Son-in-Law had this Picture Drawn according to
her Direction. N.B. This Monster was att his
Birth almost as Big as a New Born Child, when
I had this Figure Painted I Showed it to her, and
she Approved of it, and said it was very much
like it." The painting represents as genuine
a lobster as ever flapped tail upon marble.

Number Four has been omitted from its proper
place in the list, on account of its presenting
nothing more remarkable than the effigy of
a very fat female child from the waist
downwards. Number Nine is also a female
"mounster" of juvenile pinguidity, a relation of one
Hannah Taylor, "born in Crouched Fryers,
June the 12th, 1682." No end to its
disagreeable attributes are detailed in the next, but
nothing of this sorts deterred "J. P.," who,
affixing those initials to the account, says he was
"very intimately acquainted with her and her
mother, who lived in St. Martin's-lane, and sold
chocolate when the girl dyed." Number Ten is
a female dwarf, Ann Rouse by name, "Borne
near the City of Norwich ye 24th of June 1690
aged 27 years." (That is to say, not twenty-
seven when she was born, but when J. P. saw
her.) "Being but 2 Foot 2 Inches high, very
well shaped, well Proportion'd and very Strait"
This being is dressed like the Pig-faced lady,
and, minus the snout, looks very like her cut
down. Eleven is the lively portraiture of
a very truculent-looking character, "John
Worrenbergh of Houtshousen in Swisserland
2 foot 7 inches high, at Thirty 9 years old,
seen by me James Paris, in the year 1689
in London, was drowned in the year 1695
att Rotterdam in Holland, by Accident, being
Carried in his Box Over a Plank from the Key
on Bord of a Ship, the Plank Braking the
Porter and he fell in the River Mease, and he
being in Closed in his Box was Drowned he was
as big in all his Members as any full-grown man,
and as strong." This worthy is attired in the
full costume of the period, very splendid and
warlike, but extremely puffy, and seemingly
quite overwhelmed with a sense of his own
importance—a condition of mind common to
dwarfs. Number Eleven represents "The least
man, woman and horse, that ever were seen
Together a Live." The party consist of "A Black
Prince, his wife, a Fairy Queen, and a little Turkey
horse," which is a horse and not a turkey.

Number Twelve carries us back to the