and six others once ate some beef-steaks with shalots and tarragon, and
that they "voted unanimously, that beef-steaks never were so eaten
before."

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FINE ARTS.

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THE CAT RAPHAEL.


Gottfried Mind was born at Bern, in the year 1768. His father, but a
short time before, had come in the capacity of joiner and form-cutter
into Switzerland from Lipsich, in Upper Hungary, and had fixed his abode
at Warblaufen, a village near Bern, where he was chiefly employed for
the paper-manufactory of one Herr Gruner, and soon after his arrival
purchased the freedom of Pizif, in the Waadtland. Young Mind, on account
of his weak constitution of body, was in great measure left to himself,
perhaps in the hope of making him healthier and stronger by the cheap
and easy means of idle running about. Herr Gruner was a lover of art;
during summer he had a German artist, named Legel, in his house, a
talented and active man, who often, in country excursions, drew
buildings and cattle from nature. This excited the attention of young
Mind in some of his idle rambles: he followed Legel every where, and
watched him while he worked. Legel, touched with compassion for the poor