The manager is now wondering which of these objects to select for his secret subterranean curiosity shop.
"The point," he told a "Daily News"' inquirer, "is to know what will last. Modern paper certainly will not. We shall have to take the advice of experts about steel goods—and pickles."
"Yes," he added, "we are quite serious about the business. Please don't make a joke of it. There wil be no public funeral or anything of that sort. It is just a little private affair that concerns ourselves and the Londoners of, say, 3,000 years' hence."
As a matter of fact. there is no reason why the foundations should not last at least as long as the Pyramids. And there seems to be no reason in nature why mummies should be more enduring than pickles or pills.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.