"As I live," cried Lucius Junius Brutus, "there is the author of a aaactually smoking a cigar!How excessively piquant!" "Do my eyes deceive me, or is not that the writer of eee fumigating us all!"

He leaned his head and body far to one side, straightened slowly, bent his head on a curve to the other side, and brought it up with a jerk, imitating, as he did so, the sound of the falling and bursting shell, "sss-eee-aaa-ahah-aow-Wump."

eeing a portrait of an eminent author, taken a good many years ago, at a time when he was struggling into notice, and when he was being very severely handled by the critics.

and you know dem things run me ooo-eee till ah got tuh a stream

[Illustration: Vertical section of a Sea-Anemone of Actinia: o, mouth; t, tentacles; s, inner sac or stomach; b, main cavity; ff, reproductive organs; g, radiating partition; eee, radiating chambers; cc, circular openings in the partitions; aa, lower floor.]