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nsiderable fluency, though perhaps not with much variety. Great Firmness and Benevolence. The Moral Brain is large, and your moral standard"--("_My_ what?" _interrupts 'ARRY, with a suspicious cock of his eye_)--"Your moral standard is high." ("Right!" _says 'ARRY, mollified, and seance terminates_.) These delineators certainly put things very agreeably. One might get some useful hints, too. If Professor SKITTLES could tell me whether I am most poetic, or witty, or dramatic, I should know exactly what to aim at in my Nautical Drama. I have never been able to decide which I love the best--TENNYSON, MILTON, or CAMPBELL. And, after what he found to say about 'ARRY----but it is all so very public, I don't think I _could_ bring myself to do it--I will go on.... [Illustration: Cam-belle.] I hardly know exactly how I came here--but here I am on the platform, sitting in the Professor's chair. He is measuring me with a sliding scale, the brass end of which feels cold against my forehead. Curious sensation, as if I was upside down at a Bootmaker's. Sun in my eyes. Tittering from girls on benches in front. A party of Blazers has just come up--I fear in a frivolous spirit. Begin to wish now I had had this done privately. * * * * * THE LAND OF THE 'ARRY'UNS.--'Am'stead 'Eath. * * * * * [Illustration] NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 93. SEPTEMBER 17, 1887*** ******* This file should be named 33717.txt or 33717.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/3/7/1/33717 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the
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