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" * If it only would move and walk about ! But its education seems 

 to be improving every day. It already talks and writes, and counts 

 and sings and dances. But with all these feminine accomplishments, 

 it is not free from some of what are impertinently called by men 

 feminine faults. For example, it is talkative, thoughtless, and unable 

 to govern its tongue, or rather its foot. Thus, at an evening party 

 once, after it had answered many interrogatories to the general wonder 

 and diversion, it was finally questioned about the age of one of the ladies 

 present. The mischievous table, with much grace, raised one of its feet, 

 and began striking the floor lightly, to the very great gratification of 

 all, and especially of the lady, who saw herself the subject of gen- 

 eral attention. It struck one, two, five, ten, and the lady laughed ; 

 fifteen, seventeen, and she continued to laugh. But the table kept on, 

 and the lady's eyebrows began to contract. It struck twenty, twenty- 

 one, and the lady held up her hands ; twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty- 

 five, and the lady pressed down on the table with all her might ; but 

 the cursed piece of furniture continued obstinately, twenty-eight, 

 twenty-nine, thirty ; and it struck the last number with great force, 

 in confirmation of its truth. But on the other hand, at the same 

 moment, the betrayed thirty-years-old young lady fell backwards in a 

 fainting fit, and all confessed that the experiments of the tables are 

 dangerous, as affecting the nervous system.' 



