oner bore no
resemblance to the poacher they had seen, save that he was about the same
height and age, and was respectably dressed.

"The charge of disturbing the congregation by declaring himself the
Sunchild was then proceeded with, and unnecessary as it may appear to be,
it was thought advisable to prevent all possibility of the man's
assertion being accepted by the ignorant as true, at some later date,
when those who could prove its falsehood were no longer living. The
prisoner, therefore, was removed to his cell, and there measured by the
Master of the Gaol, and the Ranger in the presence of the Mayor, who
attested the accuracy of the measurements. Not one single one of them
corresponded with those recorded of the Sunchild himself, and a few marks
such as moles, and permanent scars on the Sunchild's body were not found
on the prisoner's. Furthermore the prisoner was shaggy-breasted, with
much coarse jet black hair on the fore-arms and from the knees downwards,
whereas the Sunchild had little hair save on his head, and what little
there was, was fine, and very light in colour.

"Confronted with these discrepancies, the gentleman who had taught the
Sunchild our language was convinced of his mistake, though he still
maintained that there was some superficial likeness between his former
pupil and the prisoner. Here he was confirmed by the Master of the Gaol,
the Mayoress, Mrs. Humdrum, and Professors Hanky and Panky, who all of
them could see what the interpreter meant, but denied that the prisoner
could be mistaken for the Sunchild for more than a few seconds. No doubt
the prisoner's unhappy delusion has been fostered, if not entirely
caused, by his having been repeatedly told that he was like the Sunchild.
The celebrated Dr. Downie, who well remembers the Sunchild, was also
examined, and gave his evidence with so much convincing detail as to make
it unnecessary to call further witnesses.

"It having been thus once for all officially and authoritatively placed
on record that the prisoner was not the Sunchild, Professors Hanky and
Panky then identified him as a well known monomaniac on the subject of
Sunchildism, who in other respects was harmless. We withhold his name
and place of abode, out of consideration for the well known and highly
respectable family to which he belongs. The prisoner admitted with much
contrition that he had made a disturbance in the temple, but pleaded that
he had been carried away by