• It pains me to think that it will be so ; and that the pitiable and
ridiculous invention of " M. Croquemitaine" has brought back the
reign of ogres and bloody giants. Many believe that a ludicrous
name prevents the danger; but the example cited by a French jour-
nal, (the Constitutional,) of an unfortunate little being, who died
of fiight by the employment of this bugbear, proves such a belief to
be a false one.
252 OF THE IMAGINATION AT THREE TEARS.
