I02 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



have been totally unable to introduce the rest of the party, 

 v/hose names I haven't been able to catch 



[Happy T/wughf. — " Who shall be nameless." This seems 

 to be a quotation out of something, occurring to me at the 

 moment. Make a note of it, and look it out afterwards.] 



and to whom, therefore, my Aunt inclines herself some- 

 what stiffly. 



The person who has brought this animal " for Die to see " 

 is a tall man with a short body, and such very long jerky sort 

 of legs, as to have the appearance of being only loosely 

 attached to his waist, perhaps supported to the division line 

 in the old-fashioned way in which a school-boy's lower half 

 used to be fastened, with evident buttons all round, to his 

 upper half. It is not a division of halves in this man's case, 

 but — {Happy Thought) — putting him as a sum in proportion 

 one-fifth is to the whole, as his legs to his body ; that is — 



One-fifth : whole : : legs : body. Algebraically, and 

 evidently. 



One-fifth {body) = whole {legs). 

 This might be called a sum in anatomy. [Note it down, and 

 see if something systematic and scientific can't be got out of 

 it, when I've leisure.] 



Mr. Jarvis's legs — Jarvis, he informs me is his name, and 

 I see no reason, judging from his personal appearance, to 

 doubt him, no more than I do his statement that he is land- 

 lord of the Wig and Chicken m the next village — Mr. Jarvis's 

 Legs 



