'I used occasionally to be rather partial to it, but the smell is so disagreeable about the clothes.' 'All right,' said the lawyer.

'I am comfortable now.

Unfold your tale.' At some length Pitman set forth his sorrows.

He had gone today to Waterloo, expecting to receive the colossal Hercules, and he had received instead a barrel not big enough to hold Discobolus; yet the barrel was addressed in the hand (with which he was perfectly acquainted) of his Roman correspondent.

What was stranger still, a case had arrived by the same train, large enough and heavy enough to contain the Hercules; and this case had been taken to an address now undiscoverable.