Dave turned to his son.
"Anyway, Buzzer, if you ever get discouraged, remember we were all like that once, and cheer up.

Remember your ancestry goes straight back to one of those, and still back of that--" "To the single cell of protoplasm," said Purdy.
"Beyond that," said Dave, "to star dust." "Yes, sir," said Wilbur.
"Foolish in the head," said Minna.

"You think you know things better than the reverent what preaches at the Lutheran church! He could easy enough tell you what you come from.

My family was in Bavaria more than two hundred years, and was not any monkeys." "Maybe Emil he got a soul, too, like a human," remarked Herman.
"You bet he has," said Dave Cowan, firmly--"just like a human." "You put him to bed," directed Minna.

"He listen to such talk and go foolish also in the head." The Wilbur twin watched Emil put to bed, then followed his father out into the quiet, starlit streets.