Archery and archness by Robin Hood

Author:Robin Hood
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: T. Hurst, 1834

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^ctured by me, I conceived truly, that far less disgusti answer the purpose quite as from the extreme of doubt extreme of confidence, I f assured within myself, that it as easy to animate a figure artificial limbs as of half put sides, as I could not be quite i in the latter case, my piec< might, after being brou^t t unsavoury scent, that would a its mean origin, and so, by ol noses, ftul of being duly cc them, I thought it best to giy ence rather than nature. Of had nothing farther to do thai figure; or, for the matter of th made my first experiment up However, I did neither the on and that for a reason which, (in more senses of the word t to be perfectly satisfactory, n the thought entirely escaped

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therefore, I only acted as people almost invariably do in romances, having recourse to all sorts of stratagems, shifts, and expedients, in order to effect what ordinary mortals would set about in a very different way.

My first care was to purchase a handsome pair of cork arms, and another of cork legs; the latter modelled, as the maker assured me, after Madame Vestris's. Having furnished myself with the requisite number of well-shaped limbs, I thought I could not do better than adopt for the torso of my figure a real trunk, duly proportioned to the limbs themselves. It will perhaps be apprehended that such a body would be but a very unshapely and clumsy affair; but, knowing how many " fine figures" are entirely made up by padding and bolstering, I was nothing daunted at the very odd appearance mine made, when I first fastened on the limbs to the aforesaid trunk. By padding, stufiing, and " bustling," I very soon succeeded in bestowing on my handiwork the true Hogarthian line of beauty, and that graceful Correggio-like undulation

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of curving contour, which is so very different from the curvature of the spine.

Perhaps it may not be amiss here to state parenthetically, that ,the being whom I designed to call into existence was to be of the female sex; and a truly all-perfect creature,— a phoenix of beauty, a model for all future poets and novelists, from which they might borrow charms for their mistresses and heroines. Yes, like the late Thomas Day, of Sandford-and-Merton and wife-educating celebrity, I resolved upon manufacturing for myself a fair partner entirely to my own mind, and, as I hoped, with far better success. However, let me not anticipate.

Having so far succeeded to my most sanguine hopes, I now set about forming the head, and that most important part of a lady's head—the face. As good luck would have it, I had by me a very heat skull, which graced the mantel-piece of my study, and which gave, as I fancied, a very Byronian air both to the apartment and to myself, as the owner of it.

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