It was a solitary place; and five days after, Grando the philosopher was found dead under a tree." "Ha, ha!" laughed Media, "Azzageddi is full as merry as ever." "But, my lord," continued Babbalanja, "some creatures have still more perverse bodies than Grando's.

In the fables of Ridendiabola, this is to be found.

'A fresh-water Polyp, despising its marine existence; longed to live upon air.

But all it could do, its tentacles or arms still continued to cram its stomach.

By a sudden preternatural impulse, however, the Polyp at last turned itself inside out; supposing that after such a proceeding it would have no gastronomic interior.