the Professors paid up without offering him a single Musical Bank coin.
They wanted to include the boots in the purchase, but here my father
stood out.

But he could not stand out as regards another matter, which caused him
some anxiety. Panky insisted that my father should give them a receipt
for the money, and there was an altercation between the Professors on
this point, much longer than I can here find space to give. Hanky argued
that a receipt was useless, inasmuch as it would be ruin to my father
ever to refer to the subject again. Panky, however, was anxious, not
lest my father should again claim the money, but (though he did not say
so outright) lest Hanky should claim the whole purchase as his own. In
so the end Panky, for a wonder, carried the day, and a receipt was drawn
up to the effect that the undersigned acknowledged to have received from
Professors Hanky and Panky the sum of 4 pounds, 10s. (I translate the
amount), as joint purchasers of certain pieces of yellow ore, a blanket,
and sundry articles found without an owner in the King's preserves. This
paper was dated, as the permit had been, XIX. xii. 29.

My father, generally so ready, was at his wits' end for a name, and could
think of none but Mr. Nosnibor's. Happily, remembering that this
gentleman had also been called Senoj--a name common enough in Erewhon--he
signed himself "Senoj, Under-ranger."

Panky was now satisfied. "We will put it in the bag," he said, "with the
pieces of yellow ore."

"Put it where you like," said Hanky contemptuously; and into the bag it
was put.