. Stories of the Hudson. eye, with a cane at his nose, a knocker at hisdoor, and an at the end of his name—one of theestablished dignitaries of the town. The matter once undertaken, was soon effected: thesexton had some influence with the doctor, they havinghad much dealing together in the way of their separateprofessions; and the very next morning he called andconducted the urchin, clad in his Sunday clothes, toundergo the inspection of Dr. Karl Lodovick Knip-perhausen. They found the doctor seated in an elbow chair, inone corner of his study, or laboratory, with a largevolume, in German
. Stories of the Hudson. eye, with a cane at his nose, a knocker at hisdoor, and an at the end of his name—one of theestablished dignitaries of the town. The matter once undertaken, was soon effected: thesexton had some influence with the doctor, they havinghad much dealing together in the way of their separateprofessions; and the very next morning he called andconducted the urchin, clad in his Sunday clothes, toundergo the inspection of Dr. Karl Lodovick Knip-perhausen. They found the doctor seated in an elbow chair, inone corner of his study, or laboratory, with a largevolume, in German print, before him. He was a shortfat man, with a dark square face, rendered more darkby a black velvet cap. He had a little knobbed nose,not unlike the ace of spades, with a pair of spectaclesgleaming on each side of his dusky countenance, like acouple of bow-windows. Dolph felt struck with awe on entering into the pres-ence of this learned man; and gazed about him withboyish wonder at the furniture of this chamber of. The present Battery Dolph Heyllger 117 knowledge, which appeared to him almost as the denof a magician. In the centre stood a claw-footed table,with pestle and mortar, phials and gallipots, and a pairof small burnished scales. At one end was a heavyclothes-press, turned into a receptacle for drugs andcompounds; against which hung the doctors hat andcloak, and gold-headed cane, and on the top grinned ahuman skull. Along the mantelpiece were glass vessels,in which were snakes and lizards, and a human foetuspreserved in spirits. A closet, the doors of which weretaken off, contained three whole shelves of books, andsome too of mighty folio dimensions; a collection, thelike of which Dolph had never before beheld. As, how-ever, the library did not take up the whole of the closet,the doctors thrifty housekeeper had occupied the restwith pots of pickles and preserves; and had hung aboutthe room, among awful implements of the healing art,strings of red peppers and corp
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