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long, then wore an anxious expression, as he took 

 from his pocket a small lense and hastily began to 

 examine the object with the utmost care. Gradually 

 a smile spread over his features, then he fairly laugh- 

 ed as he closed the lense and replaced it in his pock- 

 et, and handed me back the specimen with the re- 

 mark, "I will give you three weeks, Mr. , in 

 which to find out what it is." He then proceeded 

 with his own business as if nothing had happened. 

 The following afternoon I accidently discovered that 

 my specimen was the cornea of a crab's eye, which 

 had accidently become detached from some speci- 

 men I had captured, and which had remained in the 

 bottom of the net after its owner had been removed*. 

 "That man' could get more out of me in three week's 

 time, than anybody else I was ever under in three 

 years," was the remark of one of his pupils to me. 

 Why! For in seeking one point, he forced from you 

 one hundred that you had not even suspected as ex- 

 isting before you began your search for it, all follow- 

 ing each other as a natural sequence. He was a 

 wonderful man, with a wonderful receptivity and ex- 

 tensive memory, and a wonderful capacity for teach- 

 ing others; but words fail me in endeavoring to render 

 a just estimate of his character. 



