Eighteenth and Nineteenth Trials of the Ring
The Flatted Spheroïd, and Girgiro the Entangled: Catch Who Can
“That is singular,” continued the favorite. “Till this moment, I always imagined, that the chief fault found with Toys, was their speaking too plainly.”
“Oh! madam,” replied Mangogul, “these two are not of that tribe; understand them who can.
“You know that little crumpling of woman, whose head is sunk into her shoulders, whose arms are hardly to be seen, and whose legs are so short, and her belly so lank, that one might mistake her for a hedgehog, for a clumsy ill-develop’d embryo, who bears the nickname of the flatted Spheroïd ; who has filled her head with a notion that Brama called her to the study of geometry, because he has given her the figure of a bowl; and who consequently might have chosen the profession of artillery: for considering her make, she must have issued out of nature’s bosom, as a bullet out of the mouth of a cannon.