OLD TREES. SHIPS. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. LIFE AND PASSIONS ASCRIBED TO
INANIMATE OBJECTS. FETISH WORSHIP. A LORD CHANCELLOR AND HIS GOOSE.
_Ce que j'en ay escrit, c'est pour une curiosité, qui plaira possible
à aucuns: et non possible aux autres._
BRANTOME.
CHAPTER EXTRAORDINARY.—p. 140.
PROCEEDINGS AT A BOOK CLUB. THE AUTHOR ACCUSED OF ‘_Lese
delicatesse_,’ OR WHAT IS CALLED AT COURT ‘TUM-TI-TEE.’ HE UTTERS A
MYSTERIOUS EXCLAMATION, AND INDIGNANTLY VINDICATES HIMSELF.
_Rem profecto mirabilem, longeque stupendam, rebusque veris veriorem
describo._
HIERONYMUS RADIOLENSIS.