ROUND THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 8 1 



ca! galleries just calling their attention to the outlines 

 of forms of animals belonging to each class ; so that 

 when they came for the second time to the hall known 

 as the " Invertebrate Gallery " an interesting discussion 

 had already begun regarding the various forms of animals 

 which they had for the first time seen in that place. 



" What a variety of forms !" 

 " From all parts of the world." 



" The vastness of the collection is perfectly be- 

 wildering !" 



" Not so much so as those strange weed-like things," 

 said Vidyabhushan, pointing towards some really 

 very plant-like objects kept in cases against the western 

 wall of the hall. Pandit Jadavchandra Vidyabhushan was 

 a scholar well versed in grammar. From being an ordinary 

 Pandit of a grant-in-aid school, he, by dint of industry, 

 integrity and perseverance, had risen to be a Deputy 

 Inspector of Schools, and was the right-hand man of 

 Mr. W. The sight of those plant-like objects in a 



place devoted only to zoological specimens had puzzled 



him much. 



Mr. W. who was attentively listening to the conver- 

 sation and had noticed Vidyabhushan's embarrassment, 

 explained that though weed-like in appearance they were 

 in reality animals. 



" Truth w, as they say, stranger than fiction," exclaim- 

 ed Vidyabhushan. 



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