"Why if you 'ad Bill aboard this boat, in less'n a workin' day he'd 'ave her fixed up with boiler an' engine complete, an' be drivin' her like a train." Mr. Bossom grinned.

The latter I have already explained to mean He who Judges, and the former is a synonym of Tocapu, as it is from the verb ttaniy or ttanini, and means He who Finishes completes or perfects, although, like several other of his names, the significance of this one has up to the present remained unexplained and lost.

It must be admitted that the experiments and arguments of Spallanzani furnish a complete and a crushing reply to those of Needham.

"And this, then, was the long task which your numerous avocations during the day prevented your completing, and you therefore took the time from that allotted to recreation and amusementthis, which so strongly emboldened my little Ellen, that even my coldness had no effect, except to make her miserable.