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who having returned from his travels in the East, with this
fine flow of curling comeliness, was irresistahle. He fol-
lowed his fate, and married, but then, alas, unhappy wretch !
took one day the whim to shave off his Eastern glory.
Directly his wife saw him, the charm of that ideal which
every true woman forms of her lover, was broken ; for
instead of a dignified manly countenance, her eyes fell
upon a small pinched face, with nose celestial and mouth
most animally terrestial,
And such, a little perking chin,
To kiss it seemed almost a, sin!
IV. " That a Beard may be very comfortable in Win-
ter but too hot in Summer !" The better races of the sons
of torrid Africa wear Beards, as did the ancient Numidians,
and Tyro-African Carthaginians before them. The Arab
in the arid parching desert cherishes his ! Are we afraid of
being warmer than these in an English Summer ? Besides,
as we have already shewn, the Beard is a non-conductor of
heat as well as cold.*
* It is scarcely conceivable what strange remarks have been
made to me on the subject of the Beard. One party very gravely
enquired whether I really thought that Adam had a Beard? An-
other was remonstrating with me on the first manifestations of my
moustache; against whom I wickedly urged the argumentum ad
feminam—you don't object to it in the mihtary ? when the daugh-
ter naively chimed in, " why you know, Sir.ii is natural to them!"
Two or three acute persons, one of them a lawyer, have objected,
"but you have your hair cut!" To which I have replied, "yes!
but I don't shave it off; and I trim my Beard instead of removing
it. You also pare your nails; but you don't think of plucking
them out, do you?"
