and, putting it in the dish, bade Clauses run with it to his master. When Wagoner saw that it was a calf's head he perceived that some one had played him a malicious trick, and would not at first clap it on the man's shoulders, thinking that the parts would not fit. However, there was no time for deliberation, so he must needs do it, and he conceived that after being united to the neck, it might turn again to a man's head; but no, it remained that of a calf, and, by its bellowings, gave Johannes de Luna to understand that it was not his own. Meanwhile, the barber, who thought that he had carried the joke far enough, as he well knew that, if the blood once congealed, the head could not be set again upon the man's shoulders, came running with it, and de Luna got his own again. Wagoner, who now perceived that it was the barber who had played him this scurvy trick, resolved to be revenged on him. Accordingly, he watched his opportunity, and, following the barber when he

was going to visit a patient, turned him into a calf as he entered the house. The barber, ignorant of his transformation, trotted up to the sick man's bedside, and put his off fore hoof on the bed; on which the sick man roared out for his servants to come and drive away the calf, which they did with sticks, and whips, and dogs, whereby the barber got so thoroughly mauled that it was several days before he was healed of his wounds; so that he readily understood to whom he was indebted for this piece of pleasantry.

Dr. Bräuner closes this chapter with the anecdote which we have already given in our VII. chapter, which, as we need not repeat, we shall here conclude the account of Dr. Faustus.

CHAPTER XXXI.

"We know how to speak much falsehood like to truth:
We know how, when we will, to tell the tale of truth."

HESIOD.

"Sometimes fair truth in fiction we disguise,
Sometimes present her naked to men's eyes."

ADDISON.

OF LAND MONSTERS.

When we treated our readers with a description of the monsters of the deep, we gave a sort

of half promise that we would give them a kindred chapter on those of the forest, which we now proceed to fulfil. The monsters which our author has thought fit to characterize as such, are the elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the beaver, the basilisk, the porcupine, and the Hottentot, which last, he says, it is doubtful whether it be a man or a beast.

We shall take as many of these as may answer our purpose, and we will begin with the elephant. As here are two species of the natural elephant, so are here two of the allegorical; the one so termed from the preternatural length of the nose, or proboscis; the other from its pride of disposition, which causes it to carry that proboscis aloft and sound its own trumpet before it. The first is somewhat rare, and amongst the specimens which may be adduced of it we may instance the unfortunate gentleman, who, whenever he sat down to

dinner, was obliged, previously, to tie his nose in a double-knot, in order to keep it out of his plate.

A more recent and yet living specimen is a Madras cavalry colonel, whose nose is so exceedingly long that one of his friends asserted that, turning hastily into Popham's Broadway at one end, one day, he came full tilt against a nose, and had to walk the whole length of the street, somewhere about a mile and a half, in order to come and make his apologies to the owner thereof, when he found it belonged to Colonel A nose of

this length must be exceedingly inconvenient, especially when one has a cold in the head, as there is no possibility of being able to blow one's own nose. Your proud elephant is generally to be found in the upper classes of society, amongst those individuals, whom fortuitous circumstances have raised infinitely higher than they ever would have attained by