SCENES XIV. AND XV

The Romans were à people who had many singular customs, In the time of the decadence, and earlier, they had a vase called a lachrymary, in which they used to give vent to their grief when they lost a member of their family.

Some men of science maintain that they were not acquainted with glass, but others hold that fragments Lave been discovered in some ancient tumuli, which prove that they had cut lain. They say that pieces of the latter have which were marked with a stamp.

A servant once went into his master’s room, belonged to the latter, and sat down at his d

&oose-quill (his master had been in the habit of u for forty years), and began to write. But the split, and while he was trimming it with a finger and at the same time spilt the ink.

Although he was

put on a coat which lesk. He took upa sing this sort of pen quill was too much penknife, he cut his

ant to explain himself. But the saying that they were waiting for

servant escaped from the room, him to split wood.