At the Pole

  AFTER a great expenditure¹ of life and treasure a Daring Explorer
had succeeded in reaching the North Pole, when he was approached by
a Native Galeut who lived there.

  "Good morning," said the Native Galeut.  "I'm very glad to see you,
but why did you come here?"

  "Glory," said the Daring Explorer, curtly².

  "Yes, yes, I know," the other persisted; "but of what benefit to
man is your discovery?  To what truths does it give access which
were inaccessible³ before? - facts, I mean, having a scientific
value?"

  "I'll be Tom scatted if I know," the great man replied, frankly⁴;
"you will have to ask the Scientist of the Expedition."

  But the Scientist of the Expedition explained that he had been so
engrossed⁵ with the care of his instruments and the study of his
tables that he had found no time to think of it.