“Generally in cheap work I stuffed the skins with cotton or something of the kind and let them go, but in this case I went to work on scentific [sic] principles. I took the skin of a monkey and separated it at the waist; then allowed it to dry as a mummy would, all of which I helped along by the application of heat. I now took a fish, common in the China Sea—one that would not be familiar—and treated it in a similar way, and finally I joined them.together. I fastened scales upon the monkey portion and carefully graded them up among the hairs, then introduced some hairs down upon the fish portion. Barnacles were fastened here and there and a great cut was left open up and down the abdomen, through which any one could readily see the ribs and the joining of the vertebræ.
“The face had been given an agonized look, the hands were clenched, and, all in all, it was one of the most disagreeable sights I ever saw—even though I did produce it.
“Yes, it gave complete satisfaction. When they exhibited it a cloth was thrown over the body, and when this question was raised the proprietor would say that he would leave it to a committee of medical men, thus being confident of
