Daily Budget , being hard up for something spicy, immediately brought itself out with large headlines. “ We are not descended from monkeys, but are monkeys descended from us ? Eminent professor says chimpanzees are decadent humans.” Shortly afterwards a reporter called to see Papa, and endeavoured to induce him to write a series of popular articles on the theory. I have seldom seen Papa so angry. He turned the reporter out of the house with scant ceremony, much to my secret sorrow, as we were particularly short of money at the moment. In fact, for a moment I meditated running after the young man and informing him that my father had changed his mind and would send the articles in question. I could easily have written them myself, and the probabilities were that Papa would never have learnt of the transaction, not being a reader of the Daily Budget . However, I rejected this course as being too risky, so I merely put on my best hat and went sadly down the village to interview our justly irate grocer.