But I do' know.

'Pears to me 'sif there couldn't be no machine like that.

But anyway, Bill said so.
"And he told me about an uncle of his out in Australia who was et by a big oyster once; and when, he got inside, he stayed there until he'd et the oyster.

Then he split the shell open and took half a one for a boat, and he sailed along until he met a sea-serpent, and he killed it and drawed off its skin, and when he got home he sold it to an engine company for a hose, for forty thousand dollars, to put out fires with.
Bill said that was actually so, because he could show me a man who used to belong to the engine company.

I wish father'd let me go out to find a sea-serpent like that; but he don't let me have a chance to distinguish myself.
"Bill was saying only yesterday that the Indians caught him once and drove eleven railroad spikes through his stomach and cut off his scalp, and it never hurt him a bit.