ever cut a throat." A copy of this group followed me to London and I 

 showed it to G. B. Howes, then one of Huxley's assistants, subsequently 

 his successor. He looked at it, turned it over and said: "Taken in New 

 York, I see: is it the custorri to carry arms in New York?" "Heavens 

 man!" I said, "do you think we dress hke that in New York?" "Well, 

 I didn't exacdy know." Howes was a sly rogue and I never felt sure 

 whether he was as ignorant of things American as he pretended, or 

 was merely pulHng my leg. Sixty years later that photograph was made 

 use of as the frontispiece of the second edition of my Land Mammals. 



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