— Have a norange.

— Mon premier est un métal précieux;

Mon second est un habitant des cieux;

Mon tout est un fruit déicieux.

— Yes ; there’s truth in that, and scarcely exaggeration. (John, fetch the N.E.D., article ‘orange.’) It’s too great, really; too round, too golden, too juicy, too Brangwyn, too coster’s barrow, too abundant.

— Augustine consecrated it in an able image.

— Looking at it as segments compact in the cortex. We think of it as a bag of juice; a potable lawn-tennis ball. (What’s it say, John?)

— ‘Orange, orenge, narancia, arancia, naranza, naranja, laranja; mediceval Greek, nerantzton.’

— Push on.

—1 The fruit of a tree {see sense 2) a large, globose, many-celled berry (Hesperidium) with sub-acid juicy fulf, inclosed in a tough rind, externally of bright reddish yellow colour.’

— Thattledoo.

— Globose. That dates Dr. Murray’s early education.

—You can hear the governess’s voice : ‘The form of the earth is oblate spheroid; in other words, like an orange. Now if I were to take a knitting needle,’

— pin, she meant, but don’t let her go on. The earth, an orange; a globose fruit (which is what the

N.E.D. means);

— (Look up ‘berry,’ John)

— the association is impressed in our minds.

— Should you think ....

— ‘Berry. Any small globular or ovate fruity not having a stone'

— Thattledoo. Should you think that geodesy and the orange are practically contemporaneous?

— 1497. For bering the appill oreynzeis fra the schip.

— It was regular merchandise in the middle ages; but I see the globose berry growing more delectable and less of a medicine as time passes ....