All this we might do; but is it necessary?
Not always does the great historic muse fill up the flaws of story, leaving rather much to the imagination.
And in the present instance, we might justly be accused of undue partiality.

We are not sure that some of our kind readers might not go further still, and declare in general terms, that none of Mr.Jinks' adventures were worth telling--Mr.Jinks himself being a personage wholly unworthy of attention.
To critics of this last description, we would say in deprecation of their strictures--Friends, the world is made up of a number of odd personages, as the animal kingdom is of singular, and not wholly pleasant creatures.

Just as the scarabaeus and the ugly insect are as much a part of animated nature as the golden-winged butterfly, and humming-bird, and noble eagle, so are the classes, represented partly by our friend, as human as the greatest and the best.

As the naturalist, with laborious care, defines the characteristics of the ugly insect, buzzing, and stinging, and preying on the weaker, so must the writer give a portion of his attention to the microscopic bully, braggart, and boasting coward of the human species.

In the one case, it is _science_--in the other, _art_.
But still we shall not give too much space to Mr.Jinks, and shall proceed to detail very briefly the result of his explorations.
The great conspirator had, by the hour of eventide, procured all the information he wished.