'Nor is the man with the long name at all inferior to the other,' said Lucifer, in laying his infernal plot against the peace and prosperity of Mansoul.

Now, the man with the long name was just Mr.Get- i'-the-hundred-and-lose-i'-the-shire.

A hundred in the old county geography of England was a political subdivision of a shire, in which five score freemen lived with their freeborn families.

A county or a shire was described and enumerated by the poll-sheriff of that day as containing so many enfranchised hundreds; and the total number of hundreds made up the political unity of the shire.

To this day we still hear from time to time of the 'Chiltern Hundreds,' which is a division of Buckinghamshire that belongs, along with its political franchise, to the Crown, and which is utilised for Crown purposes at certain political emergencies.