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The lengthened, but
not preposterous ears, and the little tail, which we infer, have an
exquisite effect, and make the spectator smile in his very heart. This
race of fauns was the most delightful of all that antiquity imagined. It
seems to me that a story, with all sorts of fun and pathos in it, might
be contrived on the idea of their species having become intermingled with
the human race; a family with the faun blood in them, having prolonged
itself from the classic era till our own days. The tail might have
disappeared, by dint of constant intermarriages with ordinary mortals;
but the pretty hairy ears should occasionally reappear in members of the
family; and the moral instincts and intellectual characteristics of the
faun might be most picturesquely brought out, without detriment to the
human interest of the story. Fancy this combination in the person of a
young lady!
I have spoken of Mr. Gibson's colored statues. It seems (at least Mr.
Nichols tells me) that he stains them with tobacco juice.


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