Of thing we had to do.'

'We thank you much,' the Vulture said;

'Send up another two.'"

The base expedients to which an examination reduces its victims are hit off with much dexterity in "The Heathen Pass-ee," a parody of an American poem which is too familiar to justify quotation:—

"Tom Crib was his name,

And I shall not deny,

In regard to the same,

What that name might imply;

But his face it was trustful and childlike,

And he had the most innocent eye.