text:  _Thirdly_ stepped forward one who promised to untie the knot upon a more familiar principle: the thunder was kept back for so many months in order to allow time for Mr O'Connell to show out in his true colours on the hint of an old proverb which observes--that a baboon or other mischievous animal when running up a scaffolding or a ship's tackling exposes his most odious features the more as he is allowed to mount the higher