gate I beheld the being 4o whorly he referred sauntering about the place in evident contentment with himself and his surroundings, humming what. seemed to him a familiar ditty in a plaintive one, which not only did credit, to the music of his native place but to himself as a musician, He lacked what one might regard as a man-pleasing appearance. His head was a shock of stiff hair wich, radiated from the central point of his scalp in every direction, A few hairs decorated the sides of his race near his ears, and a few his upper lip at the corners of his mouth, His face was marked, though not seemed to me with age, neither with ines of sorrow nor eave, much less th the footprints of thought. They were simply wrinkles—the relic of some bygone surprise that had caused him to raise his eyebrows and Keep them so until they had erystallized in wrinkles, Ox, perhaps, the remains of game ancient laugh, or smile which had left its tracks upon his cheeks, but all traces of which had faded from his eyes. Wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles, even his cars T thought resembled in no slight degree a dried _muskiroom from which all juice had long since departed.
His most peculiar characteristic was that he was without arms, while his legs grew out of his shoulders, or shall we say that his fect grew on the ends of his arms where his hands should have been? for the limbs that answered dhe purpose of legs wore more nearly the shape of arms and ent like an elbow instead of like knee, though they were much longer in proportion to his body than those of an ordinary human being, and exhibited a better musoulae development,
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