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" Sept. 24, 1872.

"No! can't be a bigger man than you-19 stone. Will warm the only bed we have-as spare I But the nights are fine, and a walk home after the Jaw won't hurt you. "You can grub if you like on what we have. As to the great O, he was here on Saturday-Och Murther-as usual, full of his diskivery-but it is all bosh. "The true thing is this. Originally, man spoke by signs, and no wonder-Adam and Eve spoke by signs only, until one day Adam refused to go round the corner for some hardbake, which put Eve into a passion, and in her rage she broke Adam's head with the bedpost, which made him cry ' O!' and Eve, alarmed at opening his head and mouth at one blow, cried' 0' too. That's the origin of Language! "Some think Adam said '0 Crikey,' but as he was Crackey at the time it is uncertain. "Thine, " NASO."