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the scalp with the point of a lancet, then plucking a hairfrom the other head, cut it to the length of the eighth ofan inch; then quickly insert its root into the hole, andcover it all over with a bit of sticking plaister. One ofthese hairs I planted on the side of my forehead, an inchbeneath the limits of my own crop; nevertheless it grew,is still in good health, and of the same light, original colour.I have often thought that, for bald persons, a natural toupeemight be applied by taking a portion of scalp from the headof a man well covered with hair, and removing a corre-sponding portion from the head of the purchaser of thetoupee, quickly apply the other to it, when it would adhereand grow. The process of tagliacotation, through which theskin taken from the forehead is made to grow on to theface so as to form a nose, proves the facility of the skinmaking such adhesions. Moreover, Spalanzani and othernaturalists have transferred the combs of cocks to the headsof hens—the spurs to the head, where they have grown likehorns, and many other analogous graftings, with com-plete success. To “ dib ” hairs one at a time would betedious.

Some few pages back I have spoken of the impertinenceof a certain class of French officers, and the quarrels con-sequently provoked between them and the Neapolitans. Acircumstance illustrative of that sort of conduct so commonin England amongst the “ Tom and Jerry” school of aristo-cratic blackguards; of lamp-breaking, woman-insulting noto-riety, occurred at Naples, in 1810, to a party of my friends,when I happened to be of the number. We had ordered adinner at a noted French “ restaurateur’s,” named Janiot,and had to ourselves a small private room. Two ladieswere present, a “ Mrs. Gill and the Duchess of Cirella.”In the room next to ours a party of six French officerswere dining, and we heard them speaking close to the

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