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 gobbling fish, the hawk striking its quarry, or the hounds running into their fox. But we will suppose that the whole animal world, from the angler's lob-worm to the costermonger's donkey, is enjoying its paradise here, and return to our own kind, their sorrows, their sufferings, and natural consequence of sorrow and suffering, their sins."

He shook his skull gently, and muttered something in his spinal vertebrae about "a cart" and "a horse," but I took no notice, and proceeded with dignity

"I have learnt my Latin Grammar, and almost the only one of its precepts I have not forgotten impresses on me that—

I suppose you will not dispute that the root of all evil is money?"

"Most emphatically," he exclaimed, and