SEEING THE MUSEUM. 55

“ Mister Cramer, I have seen larger ani-
mals than this in England, in the British
Museum.”

“But not natives of that climate, or land
animals. I suppose you mean the bones of
whales. I can show you as big a jaw-bone
here as ever your eye looked upon.”

“No; I do not speak of whales, but those
huge sawrians, found in the lias limestone of
England. Why, one of our ladies* discovered
one, and pointed it out to the workmen in the
quarry ; it proved to be an animal at least
eighty feet long.

“Tt must have been a whale.”

“No, sir; it was not a whale, but an animal
who had lived and died in England.”

“Well, there is a collection of birds; you
do not pretend that you have anything to
equal our American eagle.”

“Tf that is a specimen of your largest
eagle, we have much stronger ones ; that bird
could not carry off a child in its talons.”

George considered this a direct insult to the
“bird 0’ freedom.”

* Mrs. Mantell.