He grasped his arm.

"What does this _mean_ ?" he said.

"Have you seen the paper these last few days ?" The doctor said he had.
"Well, what's the matter with that child?
What's the matter with everything--wasps, puff-balls, babies, eh?
What's making them grow so big?
This is most unexpected.

In Kent too! If it was America now--" "It's a little difficult to say just what it is," said the doctor.

"So far as I can grasp the symptoms--" "Yes ?" "It's Hypertrophy--General Hypertrophy." "Hypertrophy ?" "Yes.