have referred mention another anecdote which came within her own knowledge and which may � � tu the resolute aiid dogged perseverance of the dwarf he to mr for a branch of a tree which grew in the neighbourhood to serve some purpose of his own mr always very ready to oblige � but told that on the present occasion he could not his as it would injure the tree made no but went away grumbling tu himself next morning some of mr s i happened to be going from home so early u two o when to their surprise and terror they through the gray twilight n strange figure struggling and in the air w the said tree upon going up to the place they found it was who had some means to fasten a rope to the branch he warned was swinging with all bis weight it to break it down i hey left him and before he was again disturbed he succeeded in bringing it to the ground and carried it home will him he had a sort of strange pleasure in wandering out in the dark md i� said to have sometimes spent whole among the ruins of old buildings and other places where were believed to haunt and he used to much of his courage and in these adventures with all this he is known to have been extremely and to protect himself from he had planted a great deal of the tree or mountain � ah around his dwelling upward forty of trees were cut down in his garden after his death it does not appear that he bade any pretensions to or that there was any strung suspicion of that nature respecting among his although a knowledge of his disposition impressed both young and old with a certain degree of fearful and awe of him spent much of his time in solitude and when his garden did not his care would lie whole summer days by the side of a well the t lie read a good deal when he could get books and what is was very fond of i some of s pastoral which he could repeat i by heart the sort of reading however in which he took k delight was the adventures of and and other po about heroes the c he a copy of milton s paradise lost some of which read much me had also got hold of k � and had hi i head xv of the his t� � � � � � to great when he i mv t i � i original of black the mill or he com cr ni an his vn c� was here much hich the hound of he or the fore hammer he visit lie county but very went he won i ii to some peculiar on but those who were intimate with him � thai he would now and then a future state great and and on when hit feeling were would into appear to have had some ambition of honours perhaps i e pi him with a thirst of or had pi sentiment of his under die of a mighty � mon extraordinary and personage than one who not only up of departed but by them of the ra t of their and wi and poetical qualities has restored to the world in guise � thousand times more pleasing and � true to nature than the reality but poor l the second ur not it ia certain long expressed a desire to be buried on a particular spot which pointed nut and not in the church yard among the i as he expressed il one of the motives by for this singular wish was his aversion to have the clap down upon him by such a fellow as the man this person he always detested and would scarcely in his company probably from a secret feeling of disgust suggested by a the grave to himself in personal he appears ut have portion of in the of his burial ground it is described in a little tract before us n� a beautiful mount called the which from a plain ne in the of the parish of a number of venerable old trees and by an and lofty covered tops with he an having their broken and by deep aad rocky this hide hill rising abruptly in middle of a delightful plain with its deep green crowned a circle and its while m sheep the links of water winding at its l� through fertile and fields of grain the aged trees here d there along die bottom of the hills abode of the goat die the and the f the l of die mountains towering over all � present t of not unworthy of the of d even although it h never possessed the a � been the residence of the illustrious oi su well th� dwarf of r water the eccentric same r� d that a oi tree mi lit be above his grave on a promise to this given him but he his oil his and was co his fathers a decent m the a t w � tm the of and i in hid and � ii lu n � r� feel in ii ur li ti i� n a r death of the and the l � nd of and the consequent murder of the his own head the future of retired to the of hoping he hid him in the woods with which that country is covered and imagining that it would not l e difficult to the to revolt at tlie tyrant had always averse to the yoke at thai was not one good town in the whole province and hardly any thing villages situated on t ie borders of the forests or on the banks o and rivers some of these villages depended on the noble men of the hut most 