that he got not home without the utmoſt Difficulty.
The old Story of Infants being changed in their Cradles, is here in ſuch Credit, that Mothers are in continual Terror at the Thoughts of it. I was prevailed upon myſelf, to go and ſee a Child, who, they told me was one of theſe Changelings, and indeed muſt own was not a little ſurprized, as well as ſhocked at the Sight: nothing under Heaven could have a more beautiful Face: but tho' between Five and Six Years old, and ſeemingly healthy, he was ſo far from being able to walk, or ſtand, that he could not ſo much as move any one Joint: his Limbs were vaſtly long for his Age, but ſmaller than an Infant's of ſix Months; his Complexion was perfectly delicate, and he had the fineſt Hair in the World; he never ſpoke nor cryed, eat ſcarce any thing, and was very ſeldom ſeen to ſmile, but if any one called him a Fairy-Elf, he would frown, and ſix his Eyes ſo earneſtly on thoſe who ſaid it, as if he would look them through. His Mother, or at leaſt his ſuppoſed Mother, being very poor, frequently went out a Chairing, and leſt
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