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"The proceeds, I observe," remarked the American millionaire, reading on, "are to be devoted to improving the quality of native cider, by creating a larger demand. An interesting survival: take for two," and he dropped a half-crown into the barrel.

"With all deference to your ingenious classification, sir," remarked the itinerant photographer, turning to the earl, "my professional experience ranges me on the side of the aphorist who contended that a woman could be fitly compared to no other created thing—except any other woman."

"A similar remark might be applied with even greater accuracy to a Manx cat." It was the escaped convict who spoke.

"True," admitted the itinerant photographer: "the inference holds. Scratch the Woman and you find the Other Woman."

"Iv ee a-scradch my ode ooman," remarked Jasper thoughtfully, twadn't be no huther ode ooman yeu would find but thickey same ode ooman—her what hat man auver drexil only two dree days ago."

"Hat man over drexil?" murmured the American millionaire to the room at large.

"Precipitated the speaker over his own doorstep," explained the village idiot courteously. "The 'man' is practically the equivalent of the colloquial 'one'; as you