XLIV + 

“Good! good!” cried Hum, “I’ve known her from a child! + 

She is a changeling of my management; + 

She was born at midnight in an Indian wild; + 

Her mother’s screams with the striped tiger’s blent, + 

While the torch-bearing slaves a halloo sent + 

Into the jungles; and her palanquin, + 

Rested amid the desert’s dreariment, + 

Shook with her agony, till fair were seen + 

The little Bertha’s eyes ope on the stars serene.” + 