spring chickens in the best society. Then Friday, born a cannibal and
converted to Crusoe's peculiar religion, shows that in three years he
has acquired all the emotions of filial affection prevalent at that time
among Yorkshire folk who attended dissenting chapels. More wonderful
still! old Friday pere, immersed in age and cannibalism, has the
corresponding paternal feeling. Crusoe never says exactly where these
cannibals came from, but my own belief is that they came from that
little Swiss town whence the little wooden animals for toy Noah's Arks
also came.

A German savant--one of the patient sort that spend half a life writing
a monograph on the variation of spots on the butterfly's wings--could
get a philosophical dissertation on Doubt out of Crusoe's troubles with
pens, ink and paper; also clothes. In the volume I am using, on page 86,
third paragraph, he says: "I should lose my reckoning of time for want
of books, and pen and ink." So he kept it by notches in wood, he tells
in the fourth paragraph. In paragraph 5, same page, he says: "We are to
observe that among the many things I brought out of the ship, I got
several of less value, etc., which I omitted setting down as in
particular pens, ink and paper!" Same paragraph, lower down: "I shall
show that while my ink lasted I kept things very exact, but after that
was gone I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise."
Page 87, second paragraph: "I wanted many things, notwithstanding all
the many things that I had amassed together, and of these ink was one!"
Page 88, first paragraph: "I drew up my affairs in writing!" Now, by
George! did you ever hear of more appearing and disappearing pens, ink
and paper?

The adventures of his clothes were as remarkable as his own. On his very
first trip to the wreck, after landing, he went "rummaging for clothes,