produce fatal haemorrhage, for I had been made acquainted with the fact that the blood-vessels, wounded in this way, did not usually bleed profusely until reaction took place.  At early dawn, on the following morning, I was aroused from a troubled slumber by one of the medical staff, who came round to succour the wounded.  ’What’s the matter with you my good fellow?’ said he.  ’Ah! touch me softly, I beseech you,’ I replied, ‘a cannon-ball has carried off my legs.’  He proceeded at once to examine my legs and thighs, and giving me a good shake, with a cry of joy he exclaimed ’Get up at once, there is nothing the matter with you.’  Whereupon I sprung up in utter astonishment, and stood firmly on the legs which I believed had been lost to me for ever.  I felt more thankful than I had ever done in the whole course of my life before.  I had not a wound about me.  I had indeed been shot down by an immense cannon-ball, but instead of passing through my legs, as I firmly believed it to have done, the ball had passed under my feet, and had ploughed away a cavity in the earth beneath, at least a foot in depth, into which my feet suddenly sank, giving me the idea that I had been thus shattered by the separation of my legs.  Such is the power of imagination.”

JOHNSON.

Johnson and Millar.—­When Dr. Johnson had completed his Dictionary, which had quite exhausted the patience of Mr. Andrew Millar, his bookseller, the latter acknowledged the receipt of the last sheet in the following note:—­“Andrew Millar sends his compliments to Mr. Samuel Johnson, with the money for the last sheet of the copy of the Dictionary, and thanks God he has done with him.”  To this rude note the doctor returned the following smart answer:—­“Samuel Johnson returns his compliments to Mr. Andrew Millar, and is very glad to find (as he does by his note) that Andrew Millar has the grace to thank God for anything.”

Johnson and Wilkes.—­In his English Grammar, prefixed to his Dictionary, Johnson had written—­“He seldom, perhaps never, begins any but the first syllable.”  Wilkes published some remarks upon this dictum, commencing:  “The author of this observation must be a man of quick appre-hension, and of a most compre-hensive genius.”

Johnson and Lord Elibank.—­“Lord Elibank,” says Sir W. Scott, “made a happy retort on Dr. Johnson’s definition of oats, as the food of horses in England, and men in Scotland.”  “Yes,” said he, “and where else will you see such horses, and such men?”

KINGS.