Subjects:

Experiment, Menageries, Disability

    The narrator is in a coach; a hugely corpulent man reminiscent of Daniel Lambert struggles to join him, but only succeeds in doing so after 'repeated experiments on material substances'. They are then joined by another man reminiscent of 'the dwarf Count Boruwlaski'. The narrator fancies that the coach is their 'travelling caravan' and he is their showman. (65) The dwarf announces: '"Prodigious preponderance of caloric in the atmosphere," [...] by way of big talk' (66). The giant had visited the 'Exhibition of Fleas, in Regent-Street, and thought them "prodigious!"'; the dwarf had visited the 'Great Whale at Charing-Cross, and "thought little of it"' (67).