PLATE LVII. 



stoves ; in the summer season, when the weather proved fine and 

 clear and the sun shone bright, he was sometimes indulged with a 

 coach-ride, for the sake of air, to the distance of three or four miles 

 round the environs of town. Upon such occasions he was accoutred 

 in a holiday suit, a flannel dress, resembling a countryman''s smock 

 frock, tied round the collar and wrists with ribbons, and a little hat 

 on his head ; in this masquerade, with which he was always 

 pleased, as testified by the relaxation of the gravity of his features 

 into a kind of simper, he was stationed with his keeper on the seat, 

 and in this posture he would steady himself while the coach was 

 rocking by holding the lacings with his nearest hand, and leaning on 

 the seat with the other. In these excursions some objects in par- 

 ticular would attract his notice as they passed, such as a remarkable 

 building, a sign at an inn, a waggon or stage-coach, or any other very 

 conspicuous object ; these he would gaze upon in passing with much 

 attention, not unfrequently putting his head out of the coach to 

 obtain a better view of it. 



In these excursions he was always treated with refreshments, a 

 glass or two of wine or ale, and a few oranges ; the glass of liquor 

 he would take like a human being, and after drinking the contents, 

 return the glass to the donor : this he once did with much grace to 

 the landlord of an inn who had handed a glass of liquor to the 

 keeper and another to " his friend," without perceiving that the 

 friend was a biped of another race, till he observed the great length 

 and rufous hairiness of his fingers with astonishment ; upon another 

 occasion he was handed from the coach into the parlour of an inn at 

 some short distance from town, to the great terror of the host when 

 he looked in to be favoured with his customer's commands ; but 



