Plumpitude

"And yet glorious, and beautiful as is the present season, we have a greater fondness for “Appled autumn, golden cheeked and tan;” when the grape is purpling on the trellis and the pippin hangs goldenly from the richly laden boughs; when the ripe yellow corn is bursting its husks, and the big pumpkins are mellowing, rich, and ruddily; when in the forests the ripened nuts drop thick, and the squirrels are gathering in their winter stores; when the birds and the rabbits are of a nice plumpitude, and the fat finned creatures of the stream seem to put on all their attractions to lure us to their destruction—at this season it is glorious to be with nature, to clamber in the brisk air up the mountain side, and to watch the ever-changing hues of the kaleidoscopic forests."

"At the close of the second act, the Viennese Dancers tripped upon the stage—These, as you know, are twenty or thirty children, apparently from five years old to ten, who dress and dance like full-grown dancing girls and produce astonishing effects by their well drilled combinations—They are curiosities, if it were only for the robust developement of their little bodies. Seen through a magnifying glass, their short petticoats, etc., would hardly look decent; but as children, the plumpitudes which they expose by every movement are humorously beautiful."