James! You look a fright! When we put into the sea port last week I had heard you were dead up North. Gave me a start, man.

[So here is Capt. Bill Bush of His Eminence's navy (and with two flesh and blood legs), with the very tip of a broad snout trying to get into frame as Heloise scrabbles her vast crocodilian fromt half up onto a chair and see for herself.]

You know I am always good for a drink, come find me in the Ivory Scorpion, just step over the poor drunken junior scholars.