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it home to the King's museum, which was done ; and when it arrived it was received 

 with enormous Mat and escorted to its future abiding-place by thousands of enthu- 

 siastic citizens, King Bullfrog XVI. himself attending and condescending to sit 

 enthroned upon it throughout the progress. 



The growing rigor of the weather was now admonishing the scientists to close 

 their labors for the present, so they made preparations to journey homeward. But 

 even their last day among the Caverns bore fruit ; for one of the scholars found in 



an out-of-the- ^ ^ = — way corner of 



the Museum or .j^=P ^ 'x^_-^^^^^^^ T^sT " Burial - Place " 

 a most strange -=31 ^ ^-^ ^^^^ "^^^^^^^^ '^P'-l^ and extraordina- 

 ry thing. It was 1^ ~ "^^^^^^^^m^ nothing less than 



a double Man- |lfcr^^ '^''^^^^ft// ^""^^ ^^^^^*^ ^°" 



gether breast to Jf'^lllflfl^^ ^'^'''* ^^ ^ "^^- 



ural ligament, ''Ii|(|lliy0'^^^^^^^ and labelled 



with the untrans- j/ a^I^^ ' !M|ff #1 Bl^MinW ^ ^ * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^°''d^' 

 "Siamese Twins' ||Yt^^W^y| The official re- 



port concerning mM:'^^^!m^.^M^W^^BE.... this thing closed 



"Wherefore it 



thus: 



appears that 

 times two dis- 

 this majestic 

 ing single and 

 Nature has a 

 things. — It is 



of science that 



there were in old 

 tinct species of 

 fowl, the one be- 

 the other double, 

 reason for all 

 plain to the eye 

 the Double-Man 



originally inhabited a region where dangers abounded; hence he was paired 

 together to the end' that while one part slept the other might watch ; and likewise 

 that, danger being discovered, there might always be a double instead of a single 

 power to oppose it. All honor to the mystery-dispelling eye of godlike Science !" 

 And near the Double Man-Bird was found what was plainly an ancient record of 

 his, marked upon numberless sheets of a thin white substance and bound together. 

 Almost the first glance that Professor Woodlouse threw into it revealed this 



