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"This pretended foundling is a real monster of aboh to deafen a chanter," continued Gauchère "Hold your tongue, you little howler!"

"To think that Monsieur of Reims sent this enor her hands

"I ines la Herme, "that it is a beast, an ani not Christian, in short, which ought to be thrown into the fire or into the water"

"I really hope," resuood heavens!" exclai asyluo to the river, just beside Monseigneur the bishop! what if this little ive suck to a vampire"

"How innocent that poor la Herme is!" resumed Jehanne; "don't you see, sister, that this little monster is at least four years old, and that he would have less appetite for your breast than for a turnspit"

The "little monster" we should find it difficult ourselves to describe him otherwise, was, in fact, not a new-born child It was a very angular and very lively little mass, imprisoned in its linen sack, stamped with the cipher of Messire Guillau That head was deforh; one beheld only a forest of red hair, one eye, a mouth, and teeth The eye wept, the mouth cried, and the teeth seeled in the sack, to the great consternation of the crohich increased and was renewed incessantly around it

Dame Aloise de Gondelaurier, a rich and noble woirl about five or six years of age, and dragged a long veil about, suspended to the golden horn of her headdress, halted as she passed the wooden bed, and gazed for alittle daughter, Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, spelled out with her tiny, pretty finger, the pers"

"Really," said the daht that they only exposed children here"

She turned her back, throwing into the basin a silver florin, which rang aoodwives of the chapel of Etienne Haudry open their eyes

A rave and learned Robert Mistricolle, the king's protonotary, passed, with an enormous missal under one arm and his wife on the other (Da thus by his side his two regulators,--spiritual and temporal