“Old RHN was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been in

“Old RHN was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that RHN was as dead as a doornail.” With apologies to Charles Dickens[0]. [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm