Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Saturday 23 January 1904, page 5


"ORION" BORNE MEMORIAN.

The author of the ' Round Table, in the "Pall Mall Magazine for January, white telling some anecdotes about Dr George Bird a long lived London physician, men-

tions ' Orion Horne

The author of the farthing epic, ' Onon," Hengist Horne, was in his later days a familiar guest in this doctors circle On his return from Australia Horne settling in poor quarters in Marylebone, appears to have found himself ill at ease in London alter his active life abroad 111 health seized on him and one of his symptoms says a melancholy increase of weight In deed, he had been reduced to the necessity -like Balzac, if we can trust Pins gossip of having V s (or V shaped insertions) put in his breeches And then he consulted Dr Bed, with such results that in a term or more the V s had all to be taken out again HUB suggests, that Home had not come back from Australia with a fortune,

and it is clear he could not afford

clothes for his double

And now, thanks to the physician, the veteran renewed his youth One day two ladies, on entering the house in Welbeck street where Dr Bird practised, were startled to see an old gentleman sliding head first down the Ixtmsicis This was Mr Horne celebrating his return to health It must have been about the same time that he was prompted by some casual reference to his health to ask a lady after dinner in the di diningroom the question

I hope you do not think I wear a wig' 'The lady was discs within. them to the sensation of the beholders, Hengist Horne snatched a wig indeed from his head, and waved it triumph inch thick

From Open c into one of the doctor's favourite lines-a line engraved afterward on the Chain Pier at Brighton

Tis always morning room where in the world.