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................................................................... 7 HOW THE RHINOCEROS ................................................................... ... Cameelious hump— Kiddies and grown-ups too! 11 Rudyard Kipling HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN O NCE UPON A TIME, on an uninhabited is land on the... ...ith a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners. In those days the Rhinoceros’s skin fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anyw... ...There were no wrinkles in it anywhere. He looked exactly like a Noah’s Ark Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger. All the same, he had no manners then... ... of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Rhinoceros upset the oil- stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the s... ...eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down, and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and you can look ...

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...ch these giants (against which terres- trial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed. The industrial ... ...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ... ...obable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast sheet of w... ...on returned to Calcutta. There he interested the Asi- atic Society and the Indian Company in his discovery. A vessel, to which was given the name of t...

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... stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in... ...d by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers once came galloping before hell-for-leathe... ...y gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb. She found beauty in the child... ...orth to Lac-qui-Meurt, in the Big Woods. It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a... ...taught him how to play. Last night I heard you both laughing about the old Indian basket- seller, and I just lay in bed and enjoyed your happiness.” C... ...a Swede farm boy, and these foreigners, they all got hides like a covey of rhinoceroses .” “But he is hurt!” “Well— I don’t suppose I ought to have go... ...such en- ergy that it was almost smothering him. Beside it was a celluloid rhinoceros; tight in his hand a torn picture of Old King Cole. “Shhh!” said...

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..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...iving his letters from Benares—for his exclama- tion upon the death of the Indian chief—for his desire to marry his daughter: the woman I was wooing w... ...r which was speedily to rage through some of the fair- est portions of the Indian continent. Shah Allum, the son of Shah Lollum, the descendant by the... ...roke out, and a host of starving sans- culottes appeared among the various Indian States, seeking for military service, and inflaming the minds of the... ...the last line of fortifications, the brave old man raised me from the dead rhinoceros on which I was seated, and pressed me to his breast. But the exc... ...d no extract from a news- paper, and does not quite prove that he killed a rhinoceros and stormed fourteen entrenchments at the siege of Allyghur. 21... ...olkar from his impregnable entrenchments? Don’t you know that the ignorant Indian fell into the snare, and issuing from behind the cover of his guns, ...

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... watercourses, with plentiful willows beside the road, vines and fields of Indian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old... ...tiful church, and then suddenly we are in a village street full of stately Indian soldiers. It betrays no military secret to say that commonly the rar... ...n modern warfare, so that the armour seems rather like the integument of a rhinoceros. At the sides of the head project armoured checks, and from abov... ...e and a common aim with the French and Irish and Italians and Russians and Indians. It is to that outer Britain that those Englishmen you found so int... ...al that the platelayer may say to the barrister or the duchess, or the Red Indian to the Limehouse sailor, or the Anzac soldier to the Sinn Feiner or ...

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...he bushes; having windy weather suggested by every cotter’s little rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartm... ... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C... ...have in my iron safe, nearly four hun- dred pounds of theirs; the agents have nearly a hundred The Uncommercial Traveller 75 pounds more and many of ... ... of dragging to the earth a recreant In- dian, who is supposed to have tomahawked, or essayed to tomahawk, a British officer. The design is pure poetr... ... the finest clock in the world: whereas it now turned out to be as inexpressive, moon-faced, and weak a clock as ever I saw. It belonged to a T own Ha...

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...native land; Tartar and Frank, and millions whom the wings _3835 Of Indian breezes lull, and many a band The Arctic Anarch sent, and Idumea’s s... ... _505 And therefore dared to be a liar! In truth, the Indian on the pyre Of her dead husband, half consumed, As well might there ... ...ies. ACT 1 SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: A ravine of icy rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the precipice. Pantea an... ...ND V V V V VOICE: OICE: OICE: OICE: OICE: Never such a sound before To the Indian waves we bore. A pilot asleep on the howling sea ... ... but the eastern star looks white, _825 And Asia waits in that far Indian vale, The scene of her sad exile; rugged once And desolate and froze... ..., and received the first attack _315 Like so many rhinoceroses, and then Retreating in good order, with bare tusks And wrinkl...

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...and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their... ...dge of all men twenty five hundred years before the Christian era. Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and... ...rugged ease her off a little, ease her off! rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros or the there she goes! meet her, meet her! didn’t you know she...

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...ased after Louis’s death in a condition which disproves this atrocity. The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian ... ...est acts that history can show. Y et, it was paralleled in the time of the Indian Mutiny, when every English man and woman was flying from the rage of... ..., at the mouth of the Indus, he sent his ships to survey the coasts of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of ... ...s called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marsha... ...as made more terrific by possessing thirty war elephants imported from the Indian frontier. Each of these creatures carried a tower containing thirty-... ... thrown open, and absolutely savage beasts were let loose upon one another—rhinoceroses and tigers, bulls and lions, leop- ards and wild boars—while t...

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...n strictly English lines, and write letters to the “Pioneer”, the greatest Indian daily paper, explaining his master’s aims and objects. At last he we... ... cannon boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire; so that his name stood Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E. That evening... ...fairs went, he died. The jewelled order of his knighthood went back to the Indian Government, and a new Prime Minister was appointed to the charge of ... ...he had held before him his dream of peace and quiet—the long, white, dusty Indian road, printed all over with bare feet, the incessant, slow- moving t... ...oury meal for the Bhagat. Hill-food is very simple, but with buckwheat and Indian corn, and rice and red pepper, and little fish out of the stream in ... ...igeon’s-blood rubies; there were shields of lacquer, of tortoise-shell and rhinoceros-hide, strapped and bossed with red gold and set with emeralds at...

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...ere he lay indolently stretched amongst favorite ladies, “And like a naked Indian slept himself away.” He had also tables composed of the same delicat... ...les, there were hippopotami at one time upon the stage: there was also the rhinoceros, and the still rarer crocuta or corocotta, with a few strepsiker... ...land and Galloway, the unicorn from the re- gions of Nepaul or Thibet, the rhinoceros and the river-horse from Senegal, with the elephant of Ceylon or... ...arus: it has been conjectured by some writers that they were engaged in an Indian war. Carus, it is certain, met with little resis- tance. He insisted...

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...He has a good heart.’ The phrase means: ‘The poor fellow is as stupid as a rhinoceros.’ But as I am rich, and known to hit the bull’s-eye at thirty pa... ..., and beset the prey more unitedly. If Charles could have dropped from the Indian Isles, he would have found the same people and the same interests. M... ...gentle love, later on women of other kinds,—blacks, mulattoes, whites, and Indian dancing-girls,— orgies and adventures in many lands, completely effa...

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... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... ...appointed Lady Blachington’s third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor. These are the deluge days when even ar... ... up the arm. And now the pair of men were giving and taking cuts to make a rhinoceros caper. ‘Very well; begin that way; try what you can bear,’ said ... ...carce more than waver. ‘You see how I meet it: water off a duck’s back, or Indian solar beams on the skin of a Hindoo! I despise it hardly worth conte... ...ried Grundy beating in his hand. So it had been. He rattled his views upon Indian business, to hold Inchling silent, and let his mind dwell almost lov...

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...he latter’s son. The new place was named ‘Arrow Head,’ from the numer- ous Indian antiquities found in the neighbourhood. The house was so situated as... ...ung upon them in huge folds, like the overlapping plaits on the flank of a rhinoceros. Their heads were completely bald, whilst their faces were pucke... ...ivilization, for it would alleviate his physical wants. But the voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully pro- vi... ...u- lence, does this manual labour come more unkindly than to the luxurious Indian when thus robbed of the bounty of heaven. Habituated to a life of in... ...ple. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the cour- age of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendship of some of the Polynesian nations, far ...

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... a hedger’s. Both as to his dress and to himself, he was of an overlapping rhinoceros build, with folds in his cheeks, and his forehead, and his eyeli... ... man’s bench. A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything withi...

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...mte,” replied Scarron, “I suppose 180 Twenty Years After you wish to propose to her an alliance offensive and defen- sive.” Raoul blushed again. “You... ...er, young man! so much the better! Don’t try to under- stand it—you will only lose your time.” “You forgive me, then, sir,” said Raoul, “and you will ... ...ons that lives— Mademoiselle Frances d’Aubigne.” “Does she belong to the family of the celebrated Agrippa, the friend of Henry IV .?” “His granddaught... ...his origi- nality, another of his humor, another of his independence of character, a sixth—but, good heavens! what will they leave him? as Mademoisell... ...lready gone; Made- moiselle de Scudery was going. “Vicomte,” said Athos to Raoul, “follow the duchess; beg her to do you the favor to take your arm in... ...would consider a little thing like that?” “At any rate,” said Porthos, “I am glad to hear D’Artagnan admit that he is afraid.” “I not only confess it,...

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...o that he was enabled to wield the light, round buckler of the skin of the rhinoceros, ornamented with silver loops, which he wore on his arm, swingin... ...ng so a de- lightful refreshment. Having dried himself with napkins of the Indian wool, he would willingly have resumed his own coarse garments, that ...

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...am, or ‘the Pi- rate,’ being possessed by this idea on account of his West Indian voyages. At any rate, she was determined not to be accepted or ackno... ...uch tact, and unused to the valet’s of- fice. ‘I might just as well have a rhinoceros about me,’ said Mr. Egremont, in a fit of irritation; and it end...

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... been anxious to show even more cheerfulness and activ- ity after the West Indian interview than he had shown before: if that were possible, in one of... ...efore he availed him- self of so favourable a moment for breaking the West Indian intelligence to his friend, as a piece of extraordinary prefer- ment... ..., on which the obdurate bark was knotted and overlapped like the hide of a rhinoceros or some kindred monster of the ancient days before the Flood, he...

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... a hedger’s. Both as to his dress and to himself, he was of an overlapping rhinoceros build, with folds in his cheeks, and his forehead, and his eyeli... ... man’s bench. A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything withi... ...urchased her and fitted her expressly for this voyage, being married to an Indian Prince, who was a Something-or-Other, and who wore Cashmere shawls a...

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... been anxious to show even more cheerfulness and activ- ity after the West Indian interview than he had shown before: if that were possible, in one of... ...efore he availed him- self of so favourable a moment for breaking the West Indian intelligence to his friend, as a piece of extraordinary prefer- ment... ..., on which the obdurate bark was knotted and overlapped like the hide of a rhinoceros or some kindred monster of the ancient days before the Flood, he... ... for such a cause— will I go now till I have said the rest, I may not be a Indian widow Sir and I am not and I would not so become but if I once made ...

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... -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- TH...

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... 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE INDI... ... all men’s ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.’ ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest... ...fidget finger CROSSWAYS 11 Trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me. THE INDIAN UPON GOD I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees, My s... ...l the night His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light. THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE THE island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop t... ...alone of mortals are Hid under quiet boughs apart, While our love grows an Indian star, A meteor of the burning heart, One with the tide that gleams, ... ... put a sudden darkness over the moon. Dectora. Nine swords with handles of rhinoceros horn To him that strikes him first! First Sailor. I will strike h...

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... all the many small islands, lying far from any continent, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, with the exception of the Seychelles and this ... ...the floods, and in those parts alone where the stream is rapid; or, as the Indians say, “the rocks are black where the waters are white.” Here the coa... ...ave to this appearance the name of sea-sawdust. Near Keeling Atoll, in the Indian Ocean, I observed many little masses of confervae a few inches squar... ...st arriving it was our custom to un- saddle the horses and give them their Indian corn; then, with a low bow, to ask the senhor to do us the favour to... ... town. A few hedges, made of cacti and agave, mark out where some wheat or Indian corn has been planted. The features of the country are very similar ... ..., and their bulk immense. We must enumerate the elephant, three species of rhinoceros, and prob- ably, according to Dr. Smith, two others, the hippo- ... ...t distance on ei- ther side, between one hundred and one hundred and fifty rhinoceroses, which belonged to three spe- cies: the same day he saw severa... ...gi- raffe, bos caffer, elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, ... ... From these premises we may give three tons and a half to each of the five rhinoceroses; perhaps a ton to the giraffe, and half to the bos caffer as w...

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...id Louis XVI., looking rather awkward. “Approach, Tatua.” And the gigantic Indian strode up, and stood undaunted before the first magistrate of the Fr... ...the denizen of the primaeval forests. The redoubted chief of the Nose-ring Indians was deco- rated in his war-paint, and in his top-knot was a peacock... ...ing. “The English are braves, though their faces are white,” re- plied the Indian. “Tatua shot the raging Wolfe of the English; but the other wolves c... ...e “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic form of an Indian might be seen standing on the binnacle in conversation with Commodor... ..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...the last line of fortifications, the brave old man raised me from the dead rhinoceros on which I was seated, and pressed me to his breast. But the exc... ...d no extract from a news- paper, and does not quite prove that he killed a rhinoceros and stormed fourteen intrenchments at the siege of Allyghur. W e...

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...bs up over “Sawney’s Mountain,” and down the other side, making for an old Indian “castle”—which becomes “the red man’s hut” in the next sentence; and... ...nor what was still wanting to round it up and make it so. Maybe it was the Indian; but the book does not say. At this point we have an episode: Beside... ..., and the fair day gave place to gloomy twilight, which lay heavily on the Indian Plains. He remembered an old Indian Castle, that once stood at the f... ...ear after she was married, and on her way back, on a Saturday evening, the Indians captured her within five miles of this place, and she’s never been ... ... and he went flying through the air and clear down to the trail and hit an Indian in the back with almost fatal consequences. H. T o him, or to the I... ...been made for something. She says they were only made for scenery—like the rhinoceros and the mastodon. I went over the Falls in a barrel—not satisfac...

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...e by Mr. Blyth, on the habits, voice, and constitution, &c., of the humped Indian cattle, that these had descended from a different aboriginal stock f... ... thinks that all the breeds of poultry have proceeded from the common wild Indian fowl (Gallus bankiva). In regard to ducks and rabbits, the breeds of... ...nsideration. The rock-pigeon is of a slaty-blue, and has a white rump (the Indian sub- species, C. intermedia of Strickland, having it blu- ish); the ... ...the other hand, 69 Charles Darwin in some cases, as with the elephant and rhinoceros, none are destroyed by beasts of prey: even the tiger in India m... ...turies, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins! The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a paras... ...ors have been described as fighting, bellow- ing, and whirling round, like Indians in a war-dance, 86 On the Origin of Species for the possession of ... ...omestic animals, and such facts as that former species of the elephant and rhinoceros were capable of enduring a glacial climate, whereas the living s... ...n the drawings given by Owen of the bones of the leg of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros. It is an important fact that rudimentary organs, such as teeth ...

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... was killed, 7 Yo n g e and he himself severely injured, in a raid of the Indians far west, and he was brought home by an old friend of the fam- ily.... ...would be a series of jerks from my string, and not having an integument of rhinoceros hide, I could not disregard them without a sore more raw than I ... ...s the dearest, most devoted of fathers, till he and I were devoured by the Indians. If they had com- pleted their operations on my scalp, it would hav... ... her a good deal of curious information about Bernard’s bevy of figures in Indian cos- tumes; and having the offer of such a strong arm as the General... ... the depth of colour in those eyes?” “No; his mother was a Mexican, partly Indian. We used to call him the Cacique;” and Geraldine had the pleasure of... ... departing, as well as to preserve wits enough not to let Gillian sell the Indian screen for two shillings and sixpence, under the impression that thi...

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...d humoured growl. Tom Davies described it drolly enough: ‘He laughs like a rhinoceros.’ ‘TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ. ‘DEAR SIR,—I have an old amanuensis i... ...of the negroes in the West Indies.’ His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. To... ...ed upon the whole with Johnson. I compared him at this time to a warm West-Indian climate, where you have a bright sun, quick vegetation, luxuriant fo... ...r observes, that it is said there are no weak or deformed people among the Indians; but he with much sagacity assigns the reason of this, which is, th... ...ers does not allow weak or diseased children to grow up. Now had I been an Indian, I must have died early; my eyes would not have served me to get foo... ...well. ‘And that, Sir, is not from affection but gallantry. But some of the Indians have affection.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, that they help some of their childr...

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...e kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ... I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we can’t be Indians, unfortunately—Good morning!’ They came down-stairs with powder bef... ...I can find nothing the matter with Mr Merdle. He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster...

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...e kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ... I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we can’t be Indians, unfortunately—Good morning!’ They came down-stairs with powder bef... ...I can find nothing the matter with Mr Merdle. He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster...