"'Placed between the teeth she gives them to understand that unless she lies, they can have nothing to chew.
"'But alas! in our time she is incapable to express all that the fruitful brain conceives and brings forth.
"'Lengthen it then the third of a perch, or give it for aid an additional organ.
"'Juppy made a grimace, and the affrighted hills sunk, and the poles trembled.
"'Well,' said the deity, always prodigal of gifts, 'I shall convert into tongues sundry vile things of this lower world.
"'Of old shirts, of disgusting rags, I shall make gay clothes for the press, flesh and blood for the daily paper.
"'In the feathered garb of the goose are cannons sufficient to win treasures.
"'Let your arms cease to brandish the war-like steel, and turn inert and fat bodies of men into sieves.
"'Iron fashioned into slender tongues which sing along the paper, shall there engrave the conceptions of genius.
"'And in order that you may attain the steepest summits, I shall furnish your heads with pride and envy in abundance.