Pliny, in his Natural History, has the pretty notion that
"Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus."
Varro.
Richard III., Traditional Notice of.—I have an aunt, now eighty-nine years of age, who in early life knew one who was in the habit of saying:
"I knew a man, who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in the days of Richard III."
Thus there have been but three links between one who knew Richard III. and one now alive.
My aunt's acquaintance could name his three predecessors, who were members of his own family:
their names have been forgotten, but his name was Harrison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late in life settled in Bedfordshire.
Richard died in 1484, and thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle an incident which occurred nearly 370 years since.
Mr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remarkable about Richard, that he was not the hunchback "lump of foul deformity" so generally believed until of late years.