done with? Do please remember that we have got on to Irish frieze. You
must allow me to explain the game in my own way. Now your man tackles
the next person in turn. What building, he asks, does he remind you
of? and the answer is Cologne Cathedral or the Bank of England."

"It would be difficult to choose anyone who reminded me of either
of those celebrated structures," I said, "but I'll take the Bank of
England for choice."

"But," said Hubbard, "you don't _take_ either of them, you see it in a
flash and it's gone."

"What do you see in a flash?" I said.

"The building that the man who has gone out and is asking questions in
order to guess the person everybody is thinking of reminds you of,"
said Hubbard.

"Oh, yes. That makes it absolutely clear," said Butterfield. "Let's
get to work. Personally I haven't got beyond scrambled eggs."

"And I am lost in tapioca," I said. "Let's get to bed." That's as far
as Hubbard ever got with the explanation of his game. We left him
struggling and went to bed.

* * * * *

THE TRUTHFUL TRAVELLER.

All my life I've been a rover; I have ranged the wide world over,