“No.”

“Umph! Thought not. Too tall. Who did?”

“Mr. Short.”

“Don’t Mister the man that thought out this. His whole name I want, without handles. He don’t need ’em.”

“George Short.”

“George,—that’s my name too. I suppose he is a Yankee. I know every man in England likely to have contrived this; but none of them have quite head enough.”

“He is an American.”

“Is he a Mormon?”

“No.”

“Are you?”