The high officials and educators, hearing of the wonderful giant at the city hall, hastened thither with all speed.  Then I saw an interesting spectacle.  As these higher classes of people arrived, the lower classes were compelled to leave.  The room being full, no laborer was allowed to remain if a person of nobility wished to occupy his seat.  This peculiar custom or law applies to all public places and assemblies.

In a short time all the lower classes were compelled to leave the hall to make room for the unprecedented rush of nobility.  Nothing so tempted me to speak as when I saw this partial rule in operation.

During all this gathering the officers stood in a circle around me and held their weapons ready for instant service.  Not hearing what I was or what I might do, they were ordered to maintain this strict attitude.

Every eye was fastened on me.  Some of the nobility were pale with fear; others were busy inquiring whence I came and where I had been captured.

At length the chief official made a gutteral sound.  This must have been a call for order and the signal for the opening of the court, for at once the wild confusion gave way to order as much as could be expected under the circumstances.

The brief formalities of opening the court were ridiculous to me.  This being done, all official attention was given to me.  I saw that everything was under the charge of this presiding official.  He first ordered that I should be bound and, accordingly, my hands and feet were tied.  Then a very heavy chain-like rope was fastened to my body and I was tied to the criminal’s post.

The officers were then released and retired to their special part of the room.

The chief then stepped toward me and peered into my face with a puzzled look of great anxiety.  I returned his glances calmly, but uttered not a word.

There was a breathless suspense as the chief lifted up his hands, touched my face, and felt my mustache and whiskers.  The hair was perhaps the strangest feature of my whole head, since there is nothing on their human or animal species that resembles hair.

The chief then called for a certain professor who was an expert in zoology.  This intelligent man quickly came to my side and, at the request of the chief, commenced to examine me carefully.

My manner of breathing confused him most of all.  He watched my chest rising and falling and my sides increasing and decreasing with every breath, until he was mystified beyond all power of explanation.

When the dignitaries saw that I could be touched with safety, numerous messages were flying to the chief, each one asking for the privilege of a closer inspection of me.

The presiding officer was cool-headed and firmly followed his own cause.  He waited until the professor had finished his examination and was prepared to report, whereupon he announced to the bewildered audience that heed should now be given to the conclusion of the zoologist.