Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 193
l bendings. Her prin-cipal entertainment was in the uncouth anticsof court fools and dwarfs. Fools, or jesters,used to be kept at every court to make jokes,and the Spanish court kept more of themthan any other — perhaps because it was thegravest. Dwarfs, idiots, and deformed personswere also… … THE INFANTA MARGARITA MARIA. A SPANISH PRINCESS OF TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.(ENGRAVED BY T. COLE, FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY VELASQUEZ, NOW IN THE LOUVRE, PARIS.) 180 THREE LITTLE SPANISH PRINCESSES. 181 in human beings treated like pet monkeys. Itseems to us nowadays a strange taste thatsurrounded…
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