The skeleton is, in a sense, the fundamental element in the human organism.

To begin with, the withered and corrupt dead will have to be excavated from the cellars, and when that day comes those will be present who can say: "This skeleton was So-and-So's child," "That must have been my mother."

She is the daughter of the Sultan, as I assumed when I had once determined that the skeleton is both the skeleton of her mother, and the skeleton of the Sultana.

I had surmised the possibly easy restoration of this once famous abbey, the mere skeleton of which is now fast crumbling to ruin.

That the skeleton was her mother is clear: for the cloud occurred just twenty-one years since, and the dead woman was, of course, at that moment in the prison, which must have been air-tight, and with her the girl: but since the girl is quite certainly not much more than twentyshe looks youngershe must at that time have been either unborn or a young babe: but a babe would hardly be imprisoned with another than its own mother.

Those skeletons had once been men.

It is generally assumed that a skeleton has always been the representative of Death, but erroneously; for, in fact, Holbein was the first to fix upon a mere skeleton for the embodiment of that idea.

THE SKELETON IS MCLAUGHLIN'S CLOSET.

We have no giants; the tallest skeleton preserved in our museums is scarcely a hand's breadth taller than myself, and does not, of course, approach to your stature.