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who had been cashier, and was the senior clerk ; both were wags 
and fond of fun. Crome especially, was clever, witty, full of 
mimicry, and fond of practical jokes. Poor Wigg from his rather 
odd appearance, and the habit of frequently pulling up his small 
clothes by the waist (as he did not wear braces), was a frequent 
butt of these two worthies. 
Crome played him a sad trick one day, by concocting a para- 
graph said to be taken from a certain newspaper, about a newly 
found animal in South Africa, something like a small bison, and 
was named “ Bos Minor." The description, was so circumstantial 
that Wigg took it all in, for he did not understand a joke (as 
Sidney Smith said of Lord John Russell, it required a surgical 
operation to get a joke into Wigg). When he found out the 
deception he wa3 very wroth, calling Crome a fool, rascal, &c. 
Crome played Wigg another trick, which showed his impatient 
and irascible temper, which might have ended with very serious 
consequences. Wigg was accustomed to wear a low crowned broad 
brimmer ; one evening Crome drove a nail through the brim and 
fastened it to the liat-rail ; when Wigg went to put it on, it of 
course resisted, and giving it a snatch, off came the brim. In his 
fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the 
counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it with 
great force at May’s head. May fortunately stooped in time to 
avoid the blow, which left a considerable indentation in the door 
of an iron safe, in front of which May stood. 
Notwithstanding his peculiarities of temper, Wigg is said to 
have been scrupulously honest in word and deed, and most singu- 
larly exact and neat in all he did. He was very particular in his 
method of putting down figures, which he always did from the 
right to the left, contending that in no other way could they be 
kept in columns and fit for casting up ; he was always very much 
annoyed if any one gave him columns to cast up, where the figures 
were placed irregularly. 
Mr. Turner told Mr. Fitt, that when he was a young botanist he 
received much help from Mr. Wigg, who, however, placed limits 
to it. Wigg had admitted to Mr. Turner, that Purala- rotund i/olia 
grew very near to Yarmouth, only a few minutes’ walk indeed from 
the bridge ; but he resolutely refused to say where. Mr. Turner 
was a very energetic and persevering man, and made up his mind 
