An old pal of mine is a Don, and he puts me up in College, and it amuses me to go into Hall, and to see some of the young lions at close quarters.

Hans Dans an' me was shipmates once, an' if 'e'd fought us clean, Why shipmates still when war was done might Hans an' me 'ave been; The truest pals a man can have are them 'e's fought before, Butnever no more, Hans Dans, my lad, so 'elp me, never no more!

It need scarcely be remarked that Assur-nasir-pal is a different person from the well-known Sardanapalus of classic writers, or Assur-bani-pal, the son of Esar-haddon, who reigned from about B.C. 668 to 625.

What, my pal, 'is brother!

" "His pal is the Englishman.

I shall rub it into him that my supposed pal is a perfectly sensible, unimaginative sort of chapand anyway people don't invent a yarn like that.