"
"What was the nature of this gibberish?"
"Why it might have been some sort of boyish secret code, though it
was hardly decipherable enough to judge from. I remember some
flamboyant adjectives referring to something three feet high. I
threw the paper into the waste-basket."
Turning that receptacle out on the table, Average Jones discovered
in the debris a sheet of cheap, ruled paper, covered with penciled
words in print characters. Most of these had been crossed out in
favor of other words or sentences, which in turn had been
"scratched." Evidently the writer had been toilfully experimenting
toward some elegance or emphasis of expression, which persistently
eluded him. Amidst the wreck and ruin of rhetoric, however, one
phrase stood out clear:
"Stupendous scientific sensation."
Below this was a huddle and smudge of words, from which adjectives
darted out like dim flame amidst smoke. "Gigantic" showed in its
entity followed by an unintelligible erasure. At the end this line
was the legend "3 Feet High.
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