"The modern Hydra, embracing innumerable adverse factors, would appear at least as many headed as the ancient, for as fast as one is more or less effectively decapitated up comes another to upset the applecart."
Financial Paper.
Classical students will, of course, remember how cleverly Hercules made use of this habit of the Hydra to secure the apples of the Hesperides.
THE DINING GLADIATOR;
or, War to the Knife (and Fork).
(Being further Extracts from a certain Diary.)
II.
Wrote an even better article than ever, on indigestion as a determining factor in national moral. Pointed out how important it is, if we are to think coolly, that we should eat discreetly. Sufficiently, of course, but with thought.
At the Tribunal all the afternoon, busily combing out.