New history of Standford and Merton; being a true account of the adventures of masters Tommy and Harry, with their beloved tutor, MrBarlow . , my dear Tommy, answered , it lives upon the shore. It takes itsfood hot. Mr. Barlow was now about to resume his occu-pation with the walnuts, when Harry eagerlyinquired,— But pray, sir, does it never devour men ? Mr. Barlow now turned towards Harry, whileTommy, who was on the opposite side of thetable, drew his chair nearer to the beloved tutor, without noticing this move-ment of Master Tommys, thus commenced,— The crocodile, as I
New history of Standford and Merton; being a true account of the adventures of masters Tommy and Harry, with their beloved tutor, MrBarlow . , my dear Tommy, answered , it lives upon the shore. It takes itsfood hot. Mr. Barlow was now about to resume his occu-pation with the walnuts, when Harry eagerlyinquired,— But pray, sir, does it never devour men ? Mr. Barlow now turned towards Harry, whileTommy, who was on the opposite side of thetable, drew his chair nearer to the beloved tutor, without noticing this move-ment of Master Tommys, thus commenced,— The crocodile, as I have said, liking its foodhot, will never devour a man as long as heis sufficiently cool. This reminds me of thestory of The Crocodile and the PresumptuousDentist, which, as you have neither of you 42 THE NEW HISTORY OF heard it, I will now proceed to narrate. Ayoung Dentist was once lying asleep by the sideof a river, when he was aroused by a prodigioussobbing, and on raising his eyes to the spotwhence these lugubrious sounds proceeded, hewas astonished at perceiving an enormous Croco-dile coming towards him with open mouth, and. from time to time pointing, as well as it could,with its fore paw to a huge tooth which lay farback in its upper jaw. The Dentist, divining the SANDFORD AND MERTON. 43 cause of the creatures tears, forthwith producedhis instruments, and, after a careful scrutiny, hedexterously ex-tracted the mo-lar, which hadbeen the occa-sion to the Cro-codile of so muchagony. Afterthis nothingwould serve thegrateful animalsturn but that theDentist shouldride on his backeverywhere, andin this way
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