APPENDIX 8
HAROLD FACES THE SLOTHOG
ALONE BEFORE THE GATES OF CLEMENTINE
 
 
This is the engraving found in the pamphlet Rossamünd reads after his beating from Gosling; the one he stares at for a moment when he is talking to Fransitart. You can just make out the cylinders and satchels - so famously empty - hanging about Harold’s waist, while the “beast-handlers” struggle to keep the Slothog under control. The picture is a romantic view of the event. In truth Harold was one of over a hundred who tackled the Slothog, though he was certainly the only teratologist among them. Still propagandists tell of him as standing alone, and that is how popular history chooses to remember him.