me more extended. From private houses the epidemic spread into th
ed, now appeared; not only the animal kingdom, but the vegeta
llpox, nor a man with the cattle-plague, nor do sheep suffer from the potato-rot. But here all the laws of nature seemed to be overturned. Not only were the character, temperament, and ideas of the townsfolk changed, but the dr little green heads, and gained, in the same length of time, as much in inches as formerly, under the most favourable circumstances, they had gained in fractions. Asparagus attained the height of several feet; the artichokes swelled to
erry, and four to consume a pear. The grapes also attained the enormous proportions o
o persons to e
ms, daisies, camelias, rhododendrons, invaded the garden walks, and stifled each other. And the tulips,--those dear liliaceous plants so dear to the Flemish heart, what emotion they must have caused to their zealou
his floral phenomenon, and renam
on assuming colossal proportions, if the brilliancy of their colours and perfume intoxicated the smell and the sight
which, after several days of splendou
ss phlegmatic than their masters. The dogs and cats vegetated rather than lived. They never betrayed a wag of pleasure nor a snarl of wrath. Their tails moved no more than if they had been made of bronze. Such a
nces. A horse was seen, for the first time, to take his bit in his teeth and rush through the streets of Quiquendone; an ox was observed to precipitate itself, with lowered horns, upon one of his herd; an ass was
egulations concerning the domestic animals, as, seized wit
ourge. Babies soon became quite insupportable, though till now so easy to bring up; and for t
es in the classes. The scholars would not submit to be shut in, and, besides, the infection took t
er sufficed. Each stomach was transformed into a gulf, and it became necessary to fill this gulf by the most energetic means. The consumption of the town was trebled. Instead of two repasts they had six.
and increased from day to day. Drunken people staggered in
burns, inflammations, and nervous affections, which proved to wh
r stay at home. It was necessary to establish a new police force to control the disturbers of the public peace. A prison-cage was
before. Yes, the son of Rupp, the schoolmaster, wedded the daughter of Augustine de
mained in doubt and discussion for years. The burgomaster perceived t
Passauf on the subject of a union, which seemed to her to
es, a duel with pistols--horse-pistols--at seventy-five paces, with
gentle angler, and young Simon Co
r whom Simon discovered himself to be fired with passion, and