take home with us_, which we could not have done had the cow been _ancient_. How beautifully she stood in her horns and hoofs! and how well must _he_ have studied the antique, who could have conceived and executed such a cow!" As we had imagined, there was no resisting such an appeal, and Roderick Dhu stood confessed! He now owns himself an extensive proprietor in these cows, and says they are by no means his best productions--offering us the whole dairy at a very moderate price! Comes Coco, a little later, with a lad who is to be forthwith forwarded to buy an engraved stone at _Tiano_, where he is to sleep, in order to meet our carriage to-morrow morning at Calvi, with the jacinth on his finger! Lastly comes old Bonelli to kiss both cheeks, and to declare that our loss will be felt by all the _honest_ men in Naples; and that, as for himself, he does not know what he shall do, he had always such a pleasure in coming to show us any thing. "It is not _interest_," says he, putting his hand to his _side-pocket_, "but _affection_," placing it over his _heart_, "that makes me so loth to lose you--_ah! caro lei!_" and he kissed us again and withdrew. In the darkness of earliest morning, while the stars are all glowing, and Aurora is still asleep, we discern figures in cloaks, sitting over the rippling sea, on the wall of Santa Lucia, and waiting to show us antiques by moonlight!--and then comes the _barrière_. And now, gentlemen, we wash our hands of you--and may you soon be consoled for the loss of us in the acquisition of some noble lord, with more money to spend amongst you than we ever had, and more time to devote to your winning manners and versatile accomplishments. We hope you will speak of us kindly and considerately; and, whilst you are busy in circulating our memoirs in the Strada Santa Caterina, the Toledo, and the piazza of the silversmiths, we are preparing yours, gentlemen, in a work which shall leave those of Benvenuto Cellini far--very far behind! We have now given the reader a very brief notice of a scantling of our antiquarian acquaintance abroad, taking them nearly at random from the pages of a common-place book, which abounds, we observe, in such entries. Should he desire to know something more of the craft, we keep a second batch of introductions by us, which are at his service; but to give him even the shortest notice, nay, merely to attempt the _nomenclature_, and furnish a "_catalogue raisonné_" of all that immense body, would be as wide of our purpose as it would wholly transcend our powers. Such a task would be as vain as--(but here, after the example of Boileau, Corneille, and Pope, let us give _our_ paraphrase of the well-known passage of the bard of Aquinum:--)