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fascinating behaviour mysteries are peculiar
to be dying out ; but a full discussion of
them is beyond the present scope .
few yards of netting . These and other
footrope of a trawl does this . Films
the water or along the ground .
a seine net in just the same way after
sends before it a kind of scaring effect ,
Underwater films suggest that the
that all fishing gear , when moving ,
The Bow-wave Theory . This assumes
probably through waves or vibrations in
have also shown plaice moving before
being gathered inwards by the ropes .
of her sisters . A young man from Reading named Marshall
had at first been considered as belonging to the killer ,
Even the bone cuff-links found beside the body , which
had an uncomfortable time in the presence of the coroner .
they had been borrowed by Elizabeth Camp from one
proved yet another red herring , for it was learned that
his military bearing ) , and this was accepted .
to have been away for four days . Not in itself a crime , but , added to
explain . His story was that he had left home to try to
dford for a false moustache , it left him with something to
the knowledge that he had gone shopping in the town of Guil-
This man was known to have left his home on February 11 , and
join the Army ( presumably feeling that a moustache might enhance
At Clapham Junction a ticket-collector
A passenger at Victoria said he had seen
a train for the short run to Victoria .
walking arm in arm . "
was able to identify a photograph of the
a young lady " as near as possible "
like the photograph shown him , with
a man " very close in conversation and
on platform six waiting to board
girl , and he said he had last seen her
at East Croydon . He also believed
A guard reported that at East Croydon
he had seen what was accepted as the
have joined this train by taking
same couple sitting close together in
that they had still been together at
train from London Bridge of which
a first-class compartment of the
one from Victoria and changing
South Croydon , and he remembered
he was in charge . The two could
signalman at Purley Oaks , who had
couple struggling in a first-class
hour before her body was discovered ,
Money had been dead for about an
Medical evidence established that Mary
and this matched reasonably well with
seen , as the train passed his box , a
More important evidence came from a
the timetable of the train in question .
been used to seeing couples engaged in
compartment ; but he seemed to have
another sense to their aid .
progress , because they were men of taste
the Egyptians , their cookery made rapid
of the table to the gratification of one
When , however , the Greeks did learn the
art of making fireproof earthenware from
sense alone . Having exhausted their invention
fact that they did not confine the resources
the banquets of the ancient world was the
palate , they broke fresh ground and called
in the preparation of stimulants for the
and intellect . A remarkable peculiarity in
at their desserts the number of flowers
far exceeded the number of fruits .
By delicate application of odours and richly-
essential article in their festal preparations ;
and it is the opinion of Bassius that
more exquisite and ethereal enjoyment to
distilled perfumes , these refined voluptuaries
fication of the sense of smelling was a
the grosser pleasures of the board . The grati-
aroused the fainting appetite and added a
They considered flowers as forming a very
subject of no little importance to the Romans .
smother his courtiers with flowers . Nor was
recreations of Heliogabalus was to
medicinal qualities .
it entirely as an object of luxury that the
ancients made use of flowers ; they were
essences fell upon him ; and one of the
considered to possess sanative and
When Nero supped in # his Golden House ,
a mingled shower of flowers and odorous
ebriety , or , as Bassius less clearly
power in preventing the approaches of
of the brain . It is said that there is
According to Pliny , and others , certain
expresses it , in clarifying the functions
herbs and flowers proved of sovereign
foodstuffs the traveller occasionally
nothing new under the sun , but regarding