I can understand the pictures, because there might have been a magic lantern somewhere, but that girl trick, and the basket trick, and that great snake are altogether beyond me." "So I should imagine, Wilson," the Doctor said dryly; "and if I were you I would not bother my head about it..

Nobody has succeeded in finding out any of them yet, and all the wondering in the world is not likely to get you any nearer to it." "That is what I feel, Doctor, but it is very riling to see things that you can't account for anyhow.

I wish he had sent up Richards on the pole instead of the girl.

I would not have minded going up myself if he had asked me, though I expect I should have jumped off before it got up very far, even at the risk of breaking my neck." "I should not mind risking that," the Doctor said, "though I doubt whether I should have known any more about it when I came down; but these jugglers always bring a girl or a boy with them instead of calling somebody out from the audience, as they do at home.

Well, if things are quiet we will organize another hunt, Wilson.