TUPPER'S PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY UP TO DATE.
["The range of our inquiry was intended to include the whole migratory range for seals.... Our movements were kept most secret."—Sir George Baden-Powell on the Work of the Behring Sea Commission.]
We came, we saw, we—held our tongues (myself—BADEN-POWELL—and Mr. DAWSON.)
We popped on each seal-island "unbeknownst," and what we discovered we held our jaws on.
We'd five hundred interviews within three months, which I think "cuts the record" in interviewing,
Corresponded with 'Frisco, Japan, and Russia; so I hope you'll allow we've been "up and doing."
(Not up and saying, be't well understood). As TUPPER (the Honourable C.H., Minister
Of Fisheries) said, in the style of his namesake, "The fool imagines all Silence is sinister,
"But the wise man knows that it's often dexterous." Be sure no inquisitive shyness or bounce'll
Make us "too previous" with our Report, which goes first to the QUEEN and the Privy Council.