Chapter VII. 



RECOGNITION AND COMRADESHIP. 



He did not need to rely on these two con- 

 solations for very long. There were signs all 

 around of a liveliness in the South African bee- 

 hives of science, and quite a number of these 

 busy bees came buzzing round Brown's sugar-pot 

 of crystallized saurians. But he shooed them all 

 away except one business-like fellow named 

 Broom, to whom Brown took quite a liking. 

 Once, however, when Broom took a fancy to 

 sample another of Brown's sugar-pots containing 

 anthropological * preserves ', even he got a 

 swatting that he remembered. 



On the whole Broom got on very well with 

 Brown, and he seems to have been the only 

 scientist who ever gained anything of the small 

 confidence Brown had in human beings. The 

 reason for this is that Broom set about gaining 

 his confidence in the right way. He did not make 

 the mistake of writing a preliminary letter, which 

 other scientists had all done in their keenness to 

 get some privilege or other in connection with his 



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