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96 kirby’s wonderful museum.
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kidneys were covered with fat, and pretty sound, as was
his frame altogether. Taylor, the water-poet, relates the
following anecdote of Old Parr’s endeavouring to over-
reach his landlord. “ His three leases of 63 years being
expired, (of 21 years each), he took his last lease of his
landlord, (one Master Porter), for his life, which lease he
had held for 50 years ; but wishing to renew it for his wife’s
sake, (his landlord being adverse to it), Parr being at this
time blind, sitting in his chair, by the fire, his wife looking
out of the window, saw the landlord’s son coming; he told
her to lay a pin on the ground, near his right foe, which she
did; when the landlord’s son arrived, and after the first sa-
lutation, Old Parr said, Wife, is not that a pin which lies at
my foot ? Truly, husband, quoth she, it is a pin indeed,
and she took it up : Master Porter was half in amaze that
the old man had recovered his sight again ; but it was quickly
found to be a witty conceit, to induce his landlord to renew
his lease for his wife’s sake.”
Pliny, the celebrated naturalist, mentions the following
instances of persons living in the time of Vespasian.
L. Terentius, of Bononia—150.
M. Aponius, of Arimini—150.
T. Fullonius, Bononiensis—150.
M. Mucius, of Veja—140.
Francis Consit—150,
of Burythorpe, near Mglton, Yorkshire. He was very
temperate in his living, and used great exercise, which, to-
gether, by occasionally eating a raw new laid egg, enabled him
to attain such extraordinary age. For the last sixty years of
his life he was supported by the parish, and retained his
senses to the last. He died January, 1768.
Asclepiades—150.
A celebrated physician of Priesa, Bithyriia,
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kidneys were covered with fat, and pretty sound, as was
his frame altogether. Taylor, the water-poet, relates the
following anecdote of Old Parr’s endeavouring to over-
reach his landlord. “ His three leases of 63 years being
expired, (of 21 years each), he took his last lease of his
landlord, (one Master Porter), for his life, which lease he
had held for 50 years ; but wishing to renew it for his wife’s
sake, (his landlord being adverse to it), Parr being at this
time blind, sitting in his chair, by the fire, his wife looking
out of the window, saw the landlord’s son coming; he told
her to lay a pin on the ground, near his right foe, which she
did; when the landlord’s son arrived, and after the first sa-
lutation, Old Parr said, Wife, is not that a pin which lies at
my foot ? Truly, husband, quoth she, it is a pin indeed,
and she took it up : Master Porter was half in amaze that
the old man had recovered his sight again ; but it was quickly
found to be a witty conceit, to induce his landlord to renew
his lease for his wife’s sake.”
Pliny, the celebrated naturalist, mentions the following
instances of persons living in the time of Vespasian.
L. Terentius, of Bononia—150.
M. Aponius, of Arimini—150.
T. Fullonius, Bononiensis—150.
M. Mucius, of Veja—140.
Francis Consit—150,
of Burythorpe, near Mglton, Yorkshire. He was very
temperate in his living, and used great exercise, which, to-
gether, by occasionally eating a raw new laid egg, enabled him
to attain such extraordinary age. For the last sixty years of
his life he was supported by the parish, and retained his
senses to the last. He died January, 1768.
Asclepiades—150.
A celebrated physician of Priesa, Bithyriia,