the
fourth, 9; so that she could almost say the same as the distich doth of
one of the Dalburg family of Basil: 'Rise up, daughter and go to thy
daughter, for thy daughter's daughter hath a daughter.'

"In Markshal Church, in Essex, on Mrs. Honeywood's tomb is the
following inscription: 'Here lieth the body of Mary Waters, the
daughter and coheir of Robert Waters, of Lenham, in Kent, wife of
Robert Honeywood, of Charing, in Kent, her only husband, who had at her
decease, lawfully descended from her, 367 children, 16 of her own body,
114 grandchildren, 228 in the third generation, and 9 in the fourth.
She lived a most pious life and died at Markshal, in the ninety-third
year of her age and the forty-fourth of her widowhood, May 11, 1620.'
(From 'Curiosities for the Ingenious,' 1826.) S. S. R."

Animal prolificity though not finding a place in this work, presents
some wonderful anomalies.

In illustration we may note the following: In the Illustrated London
News, May 11, 1895, is a portrait of "Lady Millard," a fine St. Bernard
bitch, the property of Mr. Thorp of Northwold, with her litter of 21
puppies, born on February 9, 1896, their sire being a magnificent
dog--"Young York." There is quoted an incredible account of a cow, the
property of J. N. Sawyer of Ohio, which gave birth to 56 calves, one of
which was fully matured and lived, the others being about the size of
kittens; these died, together with the mother. There was a cow in
France, in 1871, delivered of 5 calves.

CHAPTER V.

MAJOR TERATA.

Monstrosities have attracted notice from the earliest time, and many of
the ancient philosophers made references to them. In mythology we read
of Centaurs, impossible beings who had the body and extremities of a
beast; the Cyclops, possessed of one enormous eye; or their parallels
in Egyptian myths, the men with pectoral eyes,--the creatures "whose
heads do beneath their shoulders grow;" and the Fauns, those sylvan
deities whose lower extremities bore resemblance to those of a goat.
Monsters possessed of two or more heads or double bodies are found in
the legends and fairy tales of every nation. Hippocrates, his
precursors, Empedocles and Democritus, and Pliny, Aristotle, and Galen,
have all described monsters, although in extravagant and ridiculous
language.

Ballantyne remarks that the occasional occurrence of double monsters
was a fact known to the Hippocratic school, and is indicated by a
passage