And let the Editor of the Review upon his recent pamphlet, and let the prelate reprimanding him, and let the newspapers criticizing his pure Saxon, have a care! Funds, universally the most convincing of credentials, are placed at Dr.Bouthoin's disposal: only it is requested, that for the present the expedition be secret.

'Better so,' says pure Saxon's champion.

On a day patented for secresy, and swearing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the patent, the Rev.
Dr.Bouthoin, accompanied by his curate, the Rev.Mancate Semhians, stumbling across portmanteaux crammed with lexicons and dictionaries and other tubes of the voice of Hermes, takes possession of berths in the ship Polypheme, bound, as they mutually conceive, for the biggest adventure ever embarked on by a far-thoughted, high-thoughted, patriotic pair speaking pure Saxon or other.
Colney, with apologies to his hearers, avoided the custom of our period (called the Realistic) to create, when casual opportunity offers, a belief in the narrative by promoting nausea in the audience.

He passed under veil the Rev.Doctor's acknowledgement of Neptune's power, and the temporary collapse of Mr.Semhians.Proceeding at once to the comments of these high-class missionaries on the really curious inquisitiveness of certain of the foreign passengers on board, he introduced to them the indisputably learned, the very argumentative, crashing, arrogant, pedantic, dogmatic, philological German gentleman, Dr.Gannius, reeking of the Teutonic Professor, as a library volume of its leather.

With him is his fairhaired artless daughter Delphica.