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did he have anyhow. Remember - he passed away before Buffalo Bills Wild West came on - before the greatest show on Earth with all its animals and Aztec children and bearded women and Snake Charmers went over the ocean in an iron clad ark. You can readily imagine what kind of a time he had without my telling you. I got a passing glimpse of him once in a cage of wax works in Barnums Show, in the days when they went about over the rough country roads, and not as now by rail. He was mixed in along with a lot of dislocated kings, dingy old sovereigns retired from business, celebrated outlaws, murderers and other peculiar gentry. At first I thought it was my Roman friend for on his smiling face was the same aspect of perennial youth but if it were he he had exchanged his plaster vestments for those of wax. What a time these fellows must have had shut up nights after the show and bounced over the country roads. There was Louis Napoleon looking as if he had taken a lunch and gone straight into the stomach of Bismarck - Garibaldi making fearful threats in the dark about the sacred head of Pius the ninth and the terror stricken [[strikethrough]] King [[/strikethrough]] Bomba of Naples. I have no doubt that this was a kind of time which O'Connell engaged, for when they were all set upon their pins and