time. Deplorable! Upon the whole, the trade will suffer. I don't deny there is a remarkable quantity of ivory — mostly fossil. We must save it, at all events — but look how precarious the position is — and why? Because the method is unsound.” 'Do you,” said I, looking at the shore, 'call it “unsound method?”' 'Without doubt,” he exclaimed hotly. 'Don't you?”... 'No method at all,” I murmured after a while. 'Exactly,” he exulted.

'I anticipated this. Shows a complete want of judgment. It is my duty to point it out in the proper quarter.” 'Oh,” said I, 'that fellow — what's his name? — the brickmaker, will make a readable report for you.” He appeared confounded for a moment. It seemed to me I had never breathed an atmosphere so