park to return home from their work. As each successive wave of people entered and saw the crowd gathered at the other end they walked over to see the fun- and stayed to yowl and catcall at what appeared to have been a most unusual and incomprehensible spectacle. The joke was certainly on me. I ran up and down for almost twenty-five minutes and never once did the interest lag or the assembly show signs of breaking up. Towards the end, several policemen had come over to find out what the disturbance was about, but they did nothing in the way of breaking it up. It was only when I began to sprint at the end and when the cries and jeers and un- complimentary remarks of the gathered multitudes rose to a great climactic yowl that remonstrance was brought to bear. But when I stopped and crossed the line there ensued a colossal anti-climax; there was a dead silence as I picked up my coat and walked with what dignity that I could muster through the police and the people and found my way back to the hotel. As I finally reached the gate I felt the combined force of one thousand eyes, eighteen of which belonged to nine police- men, all focussed on my back. That evening Hannibal witnessed the performance of Ruddigore, which had opened with such success on the previous Saturday night. It was certainly worth see- ing, and especially did find favor in our eyes the frightful Murgatroyd, villainous baron of Ruddigore. He was a wonder and made such horrible grimaces that the audience became petrified and several women squealed.