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), a pottingar or apothecary.—­Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

DYING SAYINGS (real or traditional): 

ADDISON.  See how a Christian dies! or See in what peace a Christian can die!

ANAXAGORAS.  Give the boys a holiday.

[||]AERIA.  My Paetus, it is not painful.

[c] AUGUSTUS.  Vos plaudite. (After asking how he had acted his part in life.)—­Cicero.

BEAUFORT (Cardinal Henry).  I pray you all, pray for me.

BERRY (Mde. de).  Is not this dying with courage and true greatness?