“Get out! no want!” he said; and the disconcerted major-general slunk away with the most humorous expression of offended pride and grovelling servility.
“I shouldn’t stay in the town,” said the lieutenant; “it stinks. If you carry on down the road, you will come to a first-rate bathing-place.”
And so we did.
Notes
A short paragraph of explanation is needed. The different lines of investigation fit very easily into different paragraphs.
No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys
Translation of a letter written by Herr Professor Otto von Pumpenstein to the München Philological Society.