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Ematha that this as exacti What he wished an isto that da illi his death, ome fifteen ear astet, neve di these two frientis allude to this litile in
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The thigh bone is very hori and light, an singulari loos in texture the leg-bone is Narsed, ut
dens and totit. The were iven to me many
years ago by the late Andre Ballanime, Sq. os Woodhouse the udess, a the cali it on weed si dein, and thei genuinenes is unquestionabie. Α anythin must be interestin about ne onces foriori and miserabie, and whom ou great wigard has made immortal, I mahe no apolog for printingthe ollowin letters rom in old friendi vir Craig, long surgeon in Ρeebles, and who is no spendingliis evening, after a long hard and sesul assaeork in the quiet vale o Manor, illiin a mile orcw of Canni Elfhie's' cottage. The picture egi ve is ver affecting, and should ah us allthani fui that e re Wise-Ehe. There is muchthat is additional to Sir alter' account, in his author' Edition of the averte Noveis.
M DEAR SIR, David Ritchie, alias Bowed Davie, a bom a s aster Happrew, in the parishos Stobo, in the ear 74 I. He a brought to oodhou se in the paristi os anor, hen veryyoting. His athe was a labolarer, an occupie a cottage o that arm his mollier, Anabe Niven, Was a delicate doman severet amicted illi heu matism, an could notoahe care os him hen an
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insant To this cause he attribute his deformityand this, i adde to imperfeci lothing, and ad
butae could rea tolerably; ad many books Wasson os poetry, speciali Alia Ramsay he hared Burias His fallier and mollier both die early,
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the tela ant; his is and Davi Could not agris, and sh repeatecli asked herilivsbani to ut imaWay by mahing the highest stone of his holis thelowest. Ritchie lest, his ous was pulle do , and Davi triumphe in limin the tones of his
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the were bent in very direction, so that ungo Parh, then a surgeon a Pe les, in Was calle tooperate on him sor strangulate hemia, sat he could compare them to nothing ut a patri Cork-screws; hut the principat turn the too was rom the nee outwar JA so that he rested on his innei ankles, and the lower par of his tibias. The positio of the bones in the oodcut gives some, ut a Ver impe feci id ea of this the una uin misted limbs mus have crossed acti ther at the nees, and ooked more like oot than legS,
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tion, an to ei litile purpΟSe. His contemporaries are no So seW, old, and widely cattered that the are dissiculi to e go at, and when come at,
thei memories are falle like their odies. I have forgoite a What stage of his histor Plestiis butis I repeat ou an init the repetitions Sir ames Nasmyth, late os Posso, too compassion on thehouseless, Omeles lusus natum, an hario hora sebuit sor im to his own directions the oor, in-dom and verythin to fuit his diminished, grotesque forin the oo Mur feei igh, the winclo twelvel, eighteen inches, withou glass. Closed by a Wooden