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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



carpentry, and weaving a fine lot of trades for a prince! in ad- 

 dition to all this, he was a doctor ; he studied botany and medicine 

 under the direction of a medical gentleman. 



It was the intention of the countess to make her charge a good, 

 intelligent, and hardy man, or king, if perchance he might be a 

 ruler. How she prepared him for hardships and trying emergencies, 

 we may learn from one of her remarks, after political influences 

 had driven him from France, a mere youth, and almost penniless. 

 She says, " How often, since his misfortunes, have I applauded my- 

 self for the education I had given him ; for having taugnt him the 



