It is the leaf of a shrub, and your hatful is worth a thousand pounds." "Where is it to be found ?" asked Jack Meredith.

"I should like some--in a sack." "Ah, you may laugh now, but you won't when you hear all about it.

The scientific chaps called it Simiacine, because of an old African legend which, like all those things, has a grain of truth in it.

The legend is, that the monkeys first found out the properties of the leaf, and it is because they live on it that they are so strong.

Do you know that a gorilla's arm is not half so thick as yours, and yet he would take you and snap your backbone across his knee; he would bend a gun-barrel as you would bend a cane, merely by the turn of his wrist.