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P ' Our friend in the Museum informed us that whenever the Trustees 

 are expected to walk throughout the building on one of their periodical 

 visits of inspection — we do not kno w how often these take place — Mr. 

 Jones sends a preparatory message to the effect that every employe is 

 4 to come clean,' to be in his place all day, and to keep his desk clear 

 of all incumbrance. We are also told that whenever a Trustee is seen 

 to enter a building, he is instantly followed about by the same zealous 

 •Jones. Now let us recommend the Trustees, especially those who do 

 not often attend to their trust, to pay an occasional visit incog. ; to get 

 into conversation, not with the smuggest, but with the brightest-looking 

 •officials; and to try to find out for themselves if the annual £100,000 

 voted by Parliament is expended in the best interests of the public 

 paymaster." 



Now a man who calls a spade a spade can describe this 

 conduct only in one way. It is a system of habitual lying 

 practised in order to hoodwink the Trustees, and keep 

 them in ignorance of all that it most concerns them to know. 



And now let us continue our list of the killed and 

 wounded. 



Since Mr. Warren's death, another case of suffering has 

 come prominently forward. An assistant in the library, 

 the Rev. F. Laughlin, has long been suffering from one of 

 the complaints so common in the Museum — a vesical dis- 

 order — and has throughout suffered much and complained 

 bitterly of the cold and the draughts in the Library. He 

 sat in the seat next to that occupied by Mr. Deutsch. He 

 suffered as Mr. Deutsch did from cold and from the impossi- 

 bility (without going outside the building) of getting even 

 a cup of tea. Some weeks ago he was taken home 

 very seriously ill. 



Some years ago an assistant, named Pinto, died of a 

 broken heart. A little before his death, Mr. Jones and 

 Mr. Rye whom he had offended, had him up before the 

 Trustees for an erasure in his diary. He had always 

 been most regular and steady. At the time of being had 

 up he was hopelessly ill ; but Mr. Jones and Mr. Rye 

 caused him to be suspended for a month. It broke his 

 heart : soon after he died. 



