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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
salve/’’ and here he smeared it with his black ointment,
will cut a hair, or the most delicate shaving of paper-
as it now does and with that he severed paper-shavings
as if they had been nothing. If it was really the same
knife, his was a wonderful invention, and beat Mechi
hollow.
Next, I had my fortune told at three different places,
for six Kreutzers, or two-pence each; and as I was pro-
mised pretty much the same fortune by all, I suppose I
ought to believe in the truth of it. They foretold me lots
of trouble in the way of love-crosses, false friends, and un-
kind relations, and such small trifles; but were equally
liberal of rich lovers, and plenty of them, plenty of money,
and a good husband to crown all, and good children to be
the props of my old age : so I think I had, after all, a good
sixpenny-worth.
Next we came upon a little caravan, on the steps of which
vociferated a most picturesque Tyrolean, in broad-brimmed,
sugar-loafed hat, adorned with chamois hair and eagles’
feathers, in broad-ribbed stockings, and with a broad, gaily-
embroidered band round his waist, which half covered his
chest. He assured the crowd below that there was not in
the whole of Bavaria anything half as interesting, half as
extraordinary, half as astounding, as the singularly gifted,
singularly beautiful, singularly intellectual being within ;
a being from another quarter of the globe—a being adapted
to an entirely different mode of existence to om’s—a being
who could see in the dark—a being who lived upon raw
meat!—a wonderful Albino who could speak the German
tongue !
Of course we must see the Albino : so in we went, and
some way or other I felt an unusual shock. There he sat,
in a black velvet dress spangled with silver, the light coming
in from the top of the caravan, and his transparent com-
plexion, his burning, fiery eyes, like carbuncles, his long
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
salve/’’ and here he smeared it with his black ointment,
will cut a hair, or the most delicate shaving of paper-
as it now does and with that he severed paper-shavings
as if they had been nothing. If it was really the same
knife, his was a wonderful invention, and beat Mechi
hollow.
Next, I had my fortune told at three different places,
for six Kreutzers, or two-pence each; and as I was pro-
mised pretty much the same fortune by all, I suppose I
ought to believe in the truth of it. They foretold me lots
of trouble in the way of love-crosses, false friends, and un-
kind relations, and such small trifles; but were equally
liberal of rich lovers, and plenty of them, plenty of money,
and a good husband to crown all, and good children to be
the props of my old age : so I think I had, after all, a good
sixpenny-worth.
Next we came upon a little caravan, on the steps of which
vociferated a most picturesque Tyrolean, in broad-brimmed,
sugar-loafed hat, adorned with chamois hair and eagles’
feathers, in broad-ribbed stockings, and with a broad, gaily-
embroidered band round his waist, which half covered his
chest. He assured the crowd below that there was not in
the whole of Bavaria anything half as interesting, half as
extraordinary, half as astounding, as the singularly gifted,
singularly beautiful, singularly intellectual being within ;
a being from another quarter of the globe—a being adapted
to an entirely different mode of existence to om’s—a being
who could see in the dark—a being who lived upon raw
meat!—a wonderful Albino who could speak the German
tongue !
Of course we must see the Albino : so in we went, and
some way or other I felt an unusual shock. There he sat,
in a black velvet dress spangled with silver, the light coming
in from the top of the caravan, and his transparent com-
plexion, his burning, fiery eyes, like carbuncles, his long