*Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down by Francis Hodgson Burnett Were Nature just to Man from his first hour, he need not ask for Mercy; then ‘tis for us--the toys of Nature--to be both just and merciful, for so only can the wrongs she does be undone.*