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hindered from getting away by his great size; and Hiawatha slew him. His spirit, escaping, flew upwards, and prayed the storm-fools to make him a “brant” ten times their own size. This was done, and he was told never to look downwards, or he would lose his life. When Hiawatha arrived, the “brant” could not forbear looking at him; and immediately he fell to earth, and Hiawatha transformed him into an eagle.

Now in winter, when the snowflakes
Whirl in eddies round the lodges.…
“There,” they cry, “comes Pau-Puk- Keewis;
He is dancing thro’ the village,
He is gathering in his harvest.”

Longfellow: Hiawatha, xvii. (1855).

PAUL, the love-child of Margaret, who retired to port Louis, in the Mauritius, to bury herself, and bring up her only child. Hither came Mme. de la Tour, a widow, and was confined of a daughter, whom she named Virginia. Between these neighbours a mutual friendship arose, and the two children became playmates. As they grew in years, their fondness for each other developed into love. When Virginia was 15, her mother’s aunt adopted her, and begged she might be sent to France to finish her education. She was above two years in France; and as she refused to marry a count of the “aunt’s” providing, she was disinherited, and sent back to her mother. When within a cable’s length of the island, a hurricane dashed the ship to pieces, and the dead body of Virginia was thrown upon the shore. Paul drooped from grief, and within two months followed her to the grave.—Bernardin de St. Pierre: Paul et Virgine (1788).

(In Cobb’s dramatic version, Paul’s mother (Margaret) is made a faithful domestic of Virginia’s parents. Virginia’s mother dies, and commits her infant daughter to the care of Dominique, a faithful old negro servant; and Paul and Virginia are brought up in the belief that they are brother and sister. When Virginia is 15 years old, her aunt Leonora de Guzman adopts her, and sends don Antonio de Guardes to bring her to Spain, and make her his bride. She is taken by force on board ship; but scarcely has the ship started, when a hurricane dashes it on rocks, and it is wrecked. Alhambra, a runaway slave, whom Paul and Virginia had befriended, rescues Virginia, who is brought to shore and married to Paul; but Antonio is drowned.

Paul (Father), Paul Sarpi (1552–1628).

Paul (St.). The very sword which cut off the head of his apostle is preserved at the convent of La Lisla , near Toledo, in Spain. If any one doubts the fact, he may, for a gratuity, see a “copper sword, twenty-five inches long, and three and a half broad, on one side of which is the word MUCRO (‘a sword’), and on the other PAULUS … CAPITE. Can anything be more convincing?

Paul (The Second St.), St. Remi or Remigius, “The Great Apostle of the French.” He was made bishop of Rheims when only 22 years old. It was St. Remi who baptized Clovis, and told him that henceforth he must worship what he hitherto had hated, and abjure what he had hitherto adored (439-535).

(The cruse employed by St. Remi in the baptism of Clovis was used through the French monarchy in the anointing of all the kings.)

Paul and Virginia, in French, by St. Pierre, 1788. (See Paul.) There is an English version of this very pretty story.

Paul at Damascus. (See Saul…)

Paul Pry, an idle, inquisitive, meddlesome fellow, who has no occupation of his own, and is for ever poking his nose into other people’s affairs. He always comes in with the apology, “I hope I don’t intrude.”—Poole: Paul Pry (1825).

Thomas Hill, familiarly called “Tommy Hill,” was the original of this character, and also of “Gilbert Gurney,” by Theodore Hook. Planchè says of Thomas Hill—