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By naming this book as I have I do not for a moment suggest that there was anything unduly large about the size of the whiskey that Mr. Jorkens drank: no such imputation is intended. It merely happens that at the outset of certain investigations of mine into questions of biology or geography, a large whiskey has held a prominent place; and I may say that there are only two sizes of whiskey to be had at the Billiards Club, a large and a small, and Jorkens has taken a dislike to the small size ever since one was brought to him by mistake. This whiskey, by stimulating the memory of Mr. Jorkens, has brought to light some unusual data that were not only forgotten otherwise by Mr. Jorkens himself, but were unknown in several instances to all the rest of the world. My own interest in these stories is purely scientific, as I have no doubt my reader’s will be. But let not the ardour of scientists lead them to cast away the steps by which they have mounted, and let us all realize that without that humble glass of whiskey, there are things in biology that we might not quite have suspected; and let us give credit where it is due, as I do by this slight tribute of naming the book from the original starting point of a certain amount of research.

The acknowledgments and thanks of the publishers and author are due to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd., proprietors of Punch, for permission to include in this book “A Fishing Story,” which is their copyright. Acknowledgments are also made to the various magazines in England and America in which the other stories have appeared.