>>89594488Above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of a cat and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A round, furred head wearing a helmet emblazoned with "ham" on it, surmounted a pudgy body with a shirt that read "I'm Bad News"; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. Behind the figure was a vague suggestion of a Cyclopean architectural background.