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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



picture. The latter says that a goose's egg was found 

 in France, (he leaves a liberal margin for locality,) which 

 on being broken appeared exactly as in the picture. 

 Comment thereon is useless. 



MOON WOMAN. 



One would have imagined that this Egg would be 

 sufficient to test the credulity of most people, but Aldro- 

 vandus was equal to the occasion, and he gives us a 

 " Moon Woman," who lays eggs, sits upon them, and 



hatches Giants ; and he gives this on the authority of 

 Lycosthenes and Ravisius Textor. 



THE GRIFFIN. 



There always has been a tradition of birds being 

 existent, of far greater size than those usually visible. 



