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84 It is a fact that there is no instance of the skeleton of a

dead animal having been found.

85 Birdies (ptaszynki) are guns of small calibre, used with a

small bullet. A good marksman with such a fowling-piece can hit a

bird on the wing.

86 ["It may be interesting to know that one of the yet surviving

friends and schoolfellows of Mickiewicz, Ignatius Domejko, the

present Rector of the University of Santiago (Chili), related

during his stay in Warsaw last year (1884) that he challenged the

young poet, then at Wilno, to find a proper name riming with

Domejko. Mickiewicz improvised a verse riming Domejko with

Dowejko. It is not, however, quite certain whether there was

actually a family of that name."-Naganowski.]

87 Little leaves of gold lie at the bottom of bottles of Dantzic

brandy. [The city, formerly under Polish rule, was annexed to

Prussia at the time of the Second Partition, 1793.]