Fatal paralysis spreading inwards, from the extremities, in St.Ives workhouses, in Stockport cellars, through all limbs, as if towards the heart itself.

Have we actually got enchanted, then; accursed by some god ?-- Midas longed for gold, and insulted the Olympians.

He got gold, so that whatsoever he touched became gold,--and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.

Midas had misjudged the celestial music-tones; Midas had insulted Apollo and the gods: the gods gave him his wish, and a pair of long ears, which also were a good appendage to it.

What a truth in these old Fables!.