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74 address you was one vast sea of mud ; not mud in the ordinary sense, as we degenerate creatures con- ceive it, but edible nutritious mud, the mighty pabulum of the Phenactrite tribe ! ”

ANKLES, THE ATTENUATED VARIETY.

A ludicrous idea occurred to and was carried out by Walker when he was once at Brighton with my youngest brother, who, I may state here, married F. W.’s twin-sister. The day was warm,