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590 X. AMERICAN §8TATE TRIALS.

who made it black, and not rather be taken to be his who
made it white? Even upon legal principles, such an act of
ownership exercised by 8 man over the child of another, as
bleaching him without authority, entitles him, whose child
was so bleached against his consent, to abandon altogether to
the wrongdoer, and to throw the child upon his hands, Cer
tainly, if such a principle be established, as that white men
ean father their children upon negro fathers, it will very
much advance industry, and encourage many to go abroad
for employment who now stay at home.

But to return to maternal affection. A fair lady, to whom
his holiness Pope Nicholas the Third, had committed the
sacred charge of bearing him nephews and nieces, brought
him, to his utter discomfiture one day, a little bear—and
why? why, because he was of the Ursini family, and had
everywhere throughout his palace carved and painted em-
‘blems of the name and honors of his house. Pope Martin
the Fourth, who succeeded to the chair, the palace, and the
mistress, fearful of like mischief, had them all effaced; and
accordingly his nephews and nieces were nice little popines,
no more like bears than Miss Williams’ child is like a negro.

At Tzertaogonbosh, in Germany, there was 4 religious pro-
cession. Some of the inhabitants personated angels, and
some devils. One of the devils, more merry than wise, took
it in his head, as soon as the pageant was over, to run home
to his wife, and accosted her, if not in these words, in words
to this effect: ‘‘You dear plague of my life, for all the vexa-
tion you have caused me from the beginning of the world
till the date of these presents, I am determined forthwith to do
in sort that you shall hereafter be the mother of a young
devil.’’ She scuffled, he ‘‘worried her out, and had @ connee-
tion with her;’? and whether she felt lite in one month or
four, she finally bore him a young devil. Doctor Mitchill saw
nothing improbable in a fellow playing the devil with hia
wife, or begetting a little devil. He thought it prudent, how-
ever, to inform himself whether it was a dancing devil. I
am cautious in what I relate; and as I did not know what

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