MADMAN AND SPORTSMAN.
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A physician of Milan. who undertook tile
cure of madmen, had pit OF water in


his house, in which he kept his patients,


some up to the knees, some to the girdle and


some to the chin, according to the greater on
lesser degree of madness with which they


were affected. One OF the madmen who was
on the point of his recovery, happening to
be Standing at the house door, saw a young
nobleman pass, with his hawk upon his fist,
WEI. mounted, and with the usual equipaee
, d. wking-dogs, folconers, &c. behind him.
The nadman demanded to know to what
use was all this prepai alton, and was cour-
teously answered, to kill certain BIRDS
"And how much," said the madman, "may
be the worth of all the fowls you kill in a
Year," The nobleman replied, "hye or ten
crowns" sand what" said the madman,
"may your hawks, ,spaniels, horses, &c, stand
You in the year," g About five thousand
crowns" replied the gentleman "Five
thousand crowns!" replied the madman, and
gazing at him amoment with the wild ear
nestness Of an approaching frenzy, he seized
him by the shoulder, and forcing him into the