''Pon my honour,' he sometimes said, 'between ourselves, I never _do_ eat children.' However, it was generally agreed, that he was paedophagous, or infantivorous.

Some said that he first drowned them; whence I sometimes called him the paedobaptist.

Certain it is, that wherever he appeared, a sudden scarcity of children prevailed .-- _Note of the Translator._ At this moment a cry of 'murder, murder!' drew the student's eyes to the street below him; and there, to afflict his heart, stood his graceless Juno, having just upset the servant of a cook's shop, in the very act of rifling her basket; the sound of the drum was yet ringing through the streets; the crowd collected to hear it had not yet withdrawn from the spot; and in this way was Juno expressing her reverence for the proclamation of the town-council of B----.
'Fiend of perdition!' said Mr.Schnackenberger, flinging his darling pipe at her head, in the anguish of his wrath, and hastening down to seize her.

On arriving below, however, there lay his beautiful sea-foam pipe in fragments upon the stones; but Juno had vanished--to reappear no more in B----..