If I were a rabbit that had been cut into living pieces to satisfy the scientific yearnings of a learned professor, do you think I would leave behind me--for my executors to publish and make large fortunes thereby--confidential letters and private diaries accurately describing all the tortures I had endured, for the recreation of the reading public in general and the said professor in particular?
Not I." "I should.

I should leave a full, true, and particular account of all that I had suffered, and exactly how much it hurt.

It would interest the professor most tremendously." Christopher shook his head.

"Oh, dear! no; it wouldn't." "Why not ?" "Because I should have knocked his brains out long before that for having dared to hurt you at all.".