You mustn't mind him, doctor.

He's a professional cynic, sceptic, and scoffer.
Oxenden and I, however, are open to conviction, and want to know more about those birds and beasts.

Can you make anything out of the opmahera ?" The doctor swallowed a glass of wine, and replied: "Oh yes; there are many birds, each of which may be the opmahera.
There's the fossil bird of Massachusetts, of which nothing is left but the footprints; but some of these are eighteen inches in length, and show a stride of two yards.

The bird belonged to the order of the Grallae, and may have been ten or twelve feet in height.

Then there is the Gastornis parisiensis, which was as tall as an ostrich, as big as an ox, and belongs to the same order as the other.