Abbreviations: ac, anterior crus; dp, dorsal process; htp, hypothetical tympanic process or ossified extrastapes, interpreted here as an artefact due to deformation; pc, posterior crus; qc, quadrate contact area; stf; stapedial foramen; stfp, stapedial footplate.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.

Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.

The ball pitched well short of the batsman.