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HEADLONG HALL.
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Mr. Milestone.

Beautiful, Miss Tenorina! Hideous. Base, common, and popular. Such a thing as you may see anywhere, in wild and mountainous districts. Now observe the metamorphosis. Here is the same rock, cut into the shape of a giant. In one hand he holds a horn, through which that little fountain is thrown to a prodigious elevation. In the other is a ponderous stone, so exactly balanced as to be apparently ready to fall on the head of any person who may happen to be beneath[1]; and there is Lord Littlebrain walking under it.

Squire Headlong.

Miraculous, by Mahomet!

Mr. Milestone.

This is the summit of a hill, covered, as


  1. See Knight on Taste.