"What!—My Original dead?" cried the Statue. "Then I have lost all chance of ever becoming celebrated!"
Note.—This is an obvious mistranslation, since a Statue is only erected when the Original is already celebrated.—H. B. J.
"What is your favourite Perfume?" they asked the Hog, and he answered them, "Pigwash."
"How vulgar!" exclaimed the Stoat. "Mine is Patchouli!"
But the Fox said that, in his opinion, the less scent one used the better.
Note.—This merely records the well-known physiological fact that some persons are born without the olfactory sense. Emperor Vespasian was accustomed to declare (erroneously) that "pecunia non olet."—H. B. J.
"I wonder they allow such a cruel contrivance as that 'Catch 'em alive, oh!' paper!" said the Spider tearfully, as she sat in her web.
Note.—From this we learn that there may be a soft spot in the
most unpromising quarters. Even Alexander the Great, who spent the
blood of his troops like pocket money, is recorded to have wept at a
review on suddenly reflecting that all his soldiers would probably
be deceased in a hundred years. It is barely possible that Piljosh
may have been a spectator of this incident.—H. B. J.