Then the sailors, shod in boots, with cramp-hooks would take their places on the back of the enormous cetacean, and cut it up methodically in parallel bands marked off from the head to the tail.

German Kultur, through worship of efficiency, cramps originality and initiative, while our aimwhy not be frank about it!is the protection of inefficiency, which means sympathy with childhood, and opportunity for the spirit of art.

Cramp-rings were also used; and eelskins to this day are tied round the legs as a preventive of this spasmodic affection; and by laying sticks across the floor, on going to bed, cramp has also been prevented.