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HEADLONG HALL.
Mr. Escot.
You have, of course, found very copious specimens of the organs of hypocrisy, destruction, and avarice.
Mr. Cranium.
Secretiveness, destructiveness, and covetiveness. You may add, if you please, that of constructiveness.
Mr. Escot.
Meaning, I presume, the organ of building; which I contend to be not a natural organ of the featherless biped.
Mr. Cranium.
Pardon me: it is here.—(As he said these words, he produced a skull from his pocket, and placed it on the table, to the great surprise of the company.)—This was the skull of Sir Christopher Wren. You observe this
