Professor Morgan replied to all his critics, Professor Macadam included, in a masterly article, in which he declared that he was responsible only for his mathematics, not for the degree of cohesion of the earth's mucky mass hundreds of millions of years ago, and that the eclipse he had calculated must stand.

"Them there Zett'lins," said one old woman, "I almost shruk as I heerd the mucky varmints a-shovellin' on the coalsdare, dare!

Anyway, not mucky stories about a handsome stranger coming along just because a girl's car busts down.

"Thereafter all that mucky pelfe he tooke, The spoile of peoples evil gotten good, The which her sire had serap't by hooke and crooke, And burning all to ashes pour'd it down the brooke.

Must 'ave 'ad a mucky job below, this mornin'.'

We must now make room for 'Monty Ban,' 'La Bustle,' 'Mucky Farm,' 'Lousy Wood,' and 'Martinpush.')

Not on good footing, perhaps, but in this mucky ground the weight of his horse was terribly against him.