Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-02-04
TIE CORK IEC.

NJ The COR LEG.
lie who has been at Rotterdam will rcmem
? Der house Of two stories, which stands in til
suburbs just adjoining the basis Of the cana
running between that city and the Hague
Lcyden and other places. | say he will r..
member it, for 1t must have been p ,inted on
10 him as having been once inhabited by th
most ingenious artist that Holland ever pro
duced, TO say nothing of his daughter, the
prettIest maiden ever born within aearng o
the croaking of frog. 1t is not with the fan
, Blanche, unfortunately, that we have at pre-
sent any thing to do; 1t Is with the old gentle
man, her father His profession was that Of d
surgical instrument maker; but his fame prin-
cipally rested on the admirable skill with whict
he constructed wooden and cork legs. So
great was his reputation in this department o
buman science, that they whom nature or ac
cident had curtailed, carrlcatureI. or disap.
pointed IN 50 very necessary an appundlge to
the body, came limplng to him in crowds, and
however desperate their cases might be, were
very soon (as the saying is) set upon their legs
again. Many cripple, who had looked upon
his dcormlty as lncurable, and whose only
consolation consisted in an occasiuned hit at
Providence tor having trusted his making to a
Journcvmhn, found himself admirably fitted,
so elegantly propped up by Mynhecr Turning
wort, that he almost began TO doubt whether a
timber or cork supnortnr was nn, nm tine vhol,,
superior 10 more comnonplacc and tronbln.
some one of flesh and blood. And. in rood
truth, II you had seen how very handsoma and
delicate were the understandings fashioned by
the sklliuI artificcr, you would have been puz-
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