For myself, my own early margins chiefly served to note, cite, and illustrate the habits of crocodiles. Along the lower or ``tail'' edge, the saurian, splendidly serrated as to his back, arose out of old Nile; up one side n*****s, swart as sucked lead-pencil could limn them, let fall their nerveless spears; up the other, monkeys, gibbering with terror, swarmed hastily up palm-trees -- a plant to the untutored hand of easier outline than (say) your British oak. Meanwhile, all over the unregarded text Balbus slew Caius on the most inadequate provocation, or Hannibal pursued his victorious career, while Roman generals delivered ornate set speeches prior to receiving the usual satisfactory licking. Fabius, Hasdrubal -- all alike were pallid shades with faint, thin voices powerless to pierce th
