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genuine scientific work in phonetics, and a little as a poet on

Miltonic lines

THE GENTLEMAN I am myself a student of Indian dialects; and--

THE NOTE TAKER [eagerly] Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the

author of Spoken Sanscrit?

THE GENTLEMAN I ains, author of Higgins's Universal Alphabet

PICKERING [with enthusias to India to meet you

PICKERING Where do you live?

HIGGINS 27A Wimpole Street Come and see me tomorrow

PICKERING I'm at the Carlton Come with ht you are

THE FLOWER GIRL [to Pickering, as he passes her] Buy a flower, kind

gentle

PICKERING I really haven't any change I'irl's e

half-a-crown

THE FLOWER GIRL [rising in desperation] You ought to be stuffed with

nails, you ought [Flinging the basket at his feet] Take the whole

bloo basket for sixpence