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depend upon the Dean's fads. But he further tells us, what is 

 no where elfe to be found, * that, in the circle at court, he endea- 

 voured to kifs the young Lady Walpole ; — that he put on his hat 

 before the King, and laid hold on the Lord Chamberlain's ftafF ; 

 — that he exprefled his fenAuions by certain founds, which he had 

 framed to himfelf; — and, particularly, that he neighed fomething 

 like a horfe ; in which way he commonly exprefled his joy ; — 

 that he underftood the language of beads and birds, by which they 

 exprefs their appetites and feehngs ; — that his fenfes were more a- 

 cute than thofe of the tame man ; — and, laftly, that he could fing 

 fome tunes.* 



Thefe fads the Dean muft have known ; for he was in London 

 at the time ; his own arrival there, under the name of the copper- 

 farthing Dean from Ireland^ being announced to the public among 

 the other wonders contained in this work. Now, this being the 

 cafe, we cannot fuppofe that fuch a man as the Dean would have 

 told a lie, even if it had been a wonderful one, and fufh as could 

 have made his readers ftare ; whereas the things he relates of this 

 wild boy are very natural, and fuch as one fhould have expeded 

 from him. 



This is all I have been able to difcover, printed in Britain, con- 

 cerning this extraordinary phaenomenon ; more extraordinary, I 

 think, than the new planet, or than if we were to difcover 30,000 

 more fixed ftars, befides thofe lately difcovered. I have endeavoured 

 to get an account of him from Hanover, where I think fome me- 

 mory, or tradition, at leaft, of him, muft be preferved, though 

 there fhould be nothing recorded of him ; but, hitherto I have not 

 been fuccefsful. It only remains, therefore, that I fhould inform 

 the reader of what I faw myfelf, and could learn from others con- 

 cerning him^ having gone to that part of the country where he re- 



fides 



