COIL IV. 
First Naturalist. (After dinner.) “ What! the S-S-She-Sher-pent a-an 
(hie) Ich(hic)thyosauras ? Nonshe-ense ! ” 
Second Naturalist. “Who said Ich (hie) Ichthy-o-saurus ? I said a 
(hie) Plesio(hic)saurus plain enuff.” — Punch. 
I. 
u Well, ladies,” said Hunt, “ some North- 
traders bold, who over the seas in their galleys 
rolled, told of the serpent this tale to me, when 
I was up in the Northern sea. The captain here 
thinks it very absurd, that I should say a single 
word about him; but when the captain hears that 
the serpent has the longest ears, — so long, that 
twenty-five miles, it is said, he can hear, — and 
up from his truckle-bed he hurries as fast as he 
can swim, to see who it is that talks of him- 
(this in parentheses let me say : if any think of 
fishing to-day, I beg that especial care you will take, 
that none of the party allude to the snake)-” 
“ Pooh ! ” said the captain ; u the longest ears 
has he who believes, not he who hears.” 
