bore nine children, five of whom arrived at
adult age and were of ordinary proportions. She died at the age of
eighty; her husband afterward became the drawing master of Princesses
Mary and Anne, daughters of James II; he died July 23, 1690, aged
seventy-five years.

In 1730 there was born of poor fisher parents at Jelst a child named
Wybrand Lokes. He became a very skilful jeweler, and though he was of
diminutive stature he married a woman of medium height, by whom he had
several children. He was one of the smallest men ever exhibited,
measuring but 25 1/2 inches in height. To support his family better, he
abandoned his trade and with great success exhibited himself throughout
Holland and England. After having amassed a great fortune he returned
to his country, where he died in 1800, aged seventy. He was very
intelligent, and proved his power of paternity, especially by one son,
who at twenty-three was 5 feet 3 inches tall, and robust.

Another celebrated dwarf was Nicolas Ferry, otherwise known as Bebe. He
was born at Plaine in the Vosges in 1741; he was but 22 cm. (8 1/2
inches) long, weighed 14 ounces at birth, and was carried on a plate to
the church for baptism. At five Bebe was presented to King Stanislas of
Poland. At fifteen he measured 29 inches. He was of good constitution,
but was almost an idiot; for example, he did not recognize his mother
after fifteen days' separation. He was quite lax in his morals, and
exhibited no evidences of good nature except his lively attachment for
his royal master, who was himself a detestable character. He died at
twenty-two in a very decrepit condition, and his skeleton is preserved
in the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Shortly before his death
Bebe became engaged to a female dwarf named Therese Souvray, who at one
time was exhibited in Paris at the Theatre Conti, together with an
older sister. Therese lived to be seventy-three, and both she and her
sister measured only 30 inches in height. She died in 1819.

Aldrovandus gives a picture of a famous dwarf of the Duc de Crequi who
was only 30 inches tall, though perfectly formed; he also speaks of
some dwarfs who were not over 2 feet high.

There was a Polish gentleman named Joseph Borwilaski, born in 1739 who
was famed all over Europe. He became quite a scholar, speaking French
and German fairly well. In 1860, at the age of twenty-two, and 28
inches in height, he married a woman of ordinary stature, who bore him
two