
The dignified old gentleman turned out to be Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking, who has been maintained by the the Circumlocution Office for many years as a representative of the Britannic Majesty abroad. This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success that the very name of Englishman yet stuck cold to the stomachs of foreigners who had the distinguished honor of remembering him, at a