He is the seventh son of the great and renowned
conjurer, Herr Zander Vanderhoaxem, who made the stars tremble, and the
devil sweat himself to powder in a fit of repentance. His influence over
the stars and heavenly bodies is tremendous, and it is a well-known fact
throughout the universe that he has them in such a complete state of
terror and subjection, that a single comet dare not wag his tail unless
by his permission. He travels up and down the milky way one night in
every month, to see that the dairies of the sky are all right, and that
that celebrated path be properly lighted; brings down a pail of the milk
with him, which he churns into butyrus, an unguent so efficacious that
it cures all maladies under the sun, and many that never existed. It
can be had at five shillings a spoonful. He can make Ursa Major, or
the Great Bear, dance without a leader, and has taught Pisces, or the
Fishes, to live out of water--a prodigy never known or heard of before
since the creation of _terra firma_. Such is the power of the great and
celebrated Her Vanderpluckem over the stars and planets.
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