d portrait painter, and a page of the back-stairs
in the court of Charles I. The king honored the wedding with his
presence; and they had nine children (1615-1690).

Design or chance makes others wive,
But Nature did this match contrive.

Waller (1642).

HUDSON (_Sir Jeffrey_), 18 inches. He was born at Oakham, in
Rutlandshire (1619--1678).

LUCIUS, 2 feet; weight 17 lbs. The dwarf of the Emperor Augustus.
PHILE'TAS, a poet, so small that "he wore leaden shoes to prevent
being blown away by the wind" (died B.C. 280).

PHILIPS (_Calvin_) weighed less than 2 lbs. His thighs were not
thicker than a man's thumb. He was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
in 1791.

RITCHIE (_David_), 3 feet 6 inches. Native of Tweeddale.

SOUVRAY (_Therese_).

STOBEUIN (_C.H._) of Nuremberg was less than 3 feet at the age of 20.
His father, mother, brothers, and sisters were all under the medium
height.

THUMB (_General Tom_). His real name was Charles S. Stratton; 25
inches; weight, 25 lbs. at the age of 25. Born at Bridgeport,
Connecticut, in 1832.

THUMB (_Tom_), 2 feet 4 inches. A Dutch dwarf.

XIT, the royal dwarf of Edward VI.

[Illustration] Nicephorus Calistus tells us of an Egyptian dwarf "not
bigger than a partridge."

_Dwarf_ of Lady Clerimond was named Pac'olet. She had a winged horse,
which carried off Valentine, Orson, and Clerimond from the dungeon
of of Ferragus to the palace of King Pepin; and subsequently carried
Valentine to the palace of Alexander, his father, emperor of
Constantinople. _Valentine and Orson_ (fifteenth century).

_Dwarf_ (_The Black_), a fairy of malignant propensities, and
considered the author of all the mischief of the neighborhood. In
Sir W. Scott's novel so called, this imp is introduced under various
_aliases_, as Sir Edward Mauley, Elshander the recluse, cannie Elshie,
and the Wise Wight of Micklestane Moor.

DWARF ALBERICH, the guardian of the Niebelungen hoard. He is twice
vanquished by Siegfried, who gets possession of his cloak of
invisibility, and makes himself master of the hoard.--_The Niebelungen
Lied_ (1210).

DWARF PETER, an allegorical romance by Ludwick Tieck. The dwarf is a
castle spectre, who advises and aids the family, but all his advice
turns out evil, and all his aid is productive of trouble. The dwarf is
meant for "the law in our members, which wars against the law of our
minds, and brings us into captivity to the law of sin."

DWINING (_Henbane_),