The pupils of a distinguished professor of zoology, a raau wellknown for his eccentricities, noted one day two tidy parcels lying ou their instructor’s desk as they passed out at the school hour. On their return to the laboratory for the afternoon lecture, they saw but one. This the professor took carefully up in his hand as he opened his lecture. “In the study of vertebrata we have taken the frog as a type. Let us now examine the gastrocnemius muscles of this dissected specimen.” So saying, the professor untied the string of his neat parcel and disclosed to view a ham. sandwich and a boiled egg. “But I have eaten my lunch,” said the learned man be.wilderdly.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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118Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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