Just before the entertainment, Boyton hung his rubber-suit on a stone wall in the sun, to dry.

When the crowd had gathered, he hurried on with the dress; but flung it off with much greater rapidity, when he found it was full of the little green lizards which abound on the island.
When the P.& O.steamer arrived, Paul and his agent embarked for Malta, where they had their first clash with the authorities.

There is a peculiar law in that sleepy old town which prohibits the posting of any bills larger than a small sheet, about the size of note paper.

The night after their arrival, they plastered the town with one sheet posters, which looked to the natives bigger than one hundred sheet stands would in this country.

Next morning the inhabitants stood aghast at the audacity of the Americans in doing such an unheard of thing.