May 4—Mr. ard Mrs. Mag-pie are "tones" people; they live in the Western district and spell their name with a hyphen. But Mrs. Magpie, like many other society ladies, has "been a bit careless about her children. Careful birds should a ways arrange to lay and hatch their eggs so that they have a nice compact family all of about the same bird so famous as a butcher; its scientific name, by the way, is Lanius (the Latin word for butcher) and 1 have no doubt in my mind that Dickens thought of this when he named one of his greatest.villains Lagnier, this being none other than hat super-villain Monsieur Rigaud whose other names were Lagnier and [Bladois. Just listen to this description and then tell me what Dickens was thinking of when he wrote it
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