Pray, did you know, my Augusta, that men had tails ?" "Our exemption from state affairs gives us females better opportunities than your majesty enjoys, to study these matters," returned his royal consort, by the mouth of her lady of the bed-chamber.
"I dare say I'm very silly--but our cousin, here, thinks it might be well to do something for these good people, for it may encourage their king himself to visit us some day." An exclamation of pleasure escaped the ladies; who declared, one and all, it would be delightful to see a real human king--it would be so funny! "Well, well," added the good-natured monarch, "Heaven knows what may happen, for I have seen stranger things.

Really, we ought to do something for these good people; for, although we owe the pleasure of their visit, in a great degree, to the cleverness of Reasono--who, by the way, I'm glad to hear is declared an H.O.

A.X .-- yet he very handsomely admits, that but for their exertions--none of our seamikins being within reach--it would have been quite impossible to get through the ice.

I wish I knew, now, which was the cleverest and the most useful of their party." Here the queen, always thinking and speaking by proxy, suggested the propriety of leaving the point to Prince Bob.
"It would be no more than is due to his rank; for though they are men, I dare say they have feelings like ourselves." The question was now submitted to Bob, who sat in judgment on us all, with as much gravity as if accustomed to such duties from infancy.

It is said that men soon get to be familiar with elevation, and that, while he who has fallen never fails to look backwards, he who has risen invariably limits his vision to the present horizon.