human
being often the form in which strangers solicit the flattering boon. Once I had a queer proof as to the money value of my own,--as thus: I went quite casually into an auctioneer's in Piccadilly, to a book-sale; a lot of some half-dozen volumes were just being knocked down for next to nothing (such is our deterioration in these newspaper days) when the wielder of Thor's fateful hammer, dissatisfied at the price, asked for the lot to look at,--and coming amongst others to a certain book with handwriting in it, said,
gpt
Why, here's one with Martin Tupper's autograph, --on which a buyer called out,
human
I'll give you eighteenpence more for that,