. STOEY OF AN OGEE. 



" This is as strange a thing as e'er I looked on !" 



" He is as dieproportioned in his manners 

 As in his shape." 



OVER a certain republic in the south of Europe there reigned, 

 once upon a time, as cruel a tyrant as ever filled an absolute 

 throne, or was ever hurled by his subjects from one of those 

 cumbrous seats of a fashion now in course of explosion. 



This tyrant was that shadowy potentate called Fear ; and 

 inasmuch as the people over whom he had usurped dominion 

 were located in the midst of various gigantic enemies, and 



