r.'
Any ass would know what that meant; you would yourselves. Then there's
a lot of old fogies who belong to a society or something, and go and
measure, old Blunderbore round the chest and biceps, and photograph him,
and all sorts of tomfoolery. How'd they like it themselves? They say
they're working in the interests of science. I'd like to catch any one
working in the interests of science on my biceps! Rather a rum go
yesterday. The governor and mater were asked to an `At Home' at
Blunderbore's private house. I was asked too, but backed out. They
went in full toggery, and haven't turned up again at the hotel. I asked
Blunderbore, and he said he saw the last of them about eleven last
night, and was very sorry when their visit came to an end. I suppose
they've gone and lost themselves on the way home. I shall have to go
and look for them. Blunderbore wants me to go to his next party, but I
shall get out of it if I can. Ta, ta, chappies. It's jolly slow here.
The only lively chap is a parson from Lincoln with a tricycle; also a
medical fellow just turned up called Jack, a sort of dark horse, who
doesn't talk to anybody.

"Yours ever,--

"Hugh a Pie.

"`P.S.--The fellow called Jack is a swell with the boxing-gloves. He
doubled me up in two rounds, and it's not everybody could do that.'"

From the _West Anglian Anthropomorphist_, July 10th. [A communication
from the learned President.]

I anticipate the more detailed account of this singular neighbourhood,
which I hope to make when I address you at the meeting on September 1st,
by a few preliminary notes on some most extraordinary anthropological
discoveries which certain members of the society have recently made
among the inhabitants of Giants' Bay. At a very early period of the
world's history, midway, it is conjectured, between the glacial and
basaltic epochs--that is to say, about 100,000 years before the creation
of the world--there appears to have prevailed an unusual divergence in
the normal stature of the mammal bipeds in the county of Cornwall.

Fossil remains indicate the primeval existence of an undersized race
whose average height has been ascertained to be 4 feet 8.30562 inches.
This precise figure has been calculated by a member of this society,
from the measurement of an apparently human footprint discovered in the
chalk deposit thrown up in course of the erection of a public lamp, in
the vicinity of the Assembly Room. As the heavy ra