Drummond----" she began slowly.
"Well, Daisy?
After you have done, I shall begin." "Did you say that this thing lived at the bottom of the sea ?" "Precisely." "But then how could he get up here ?" "Seems difficult, don't it ?" said the Captain.

"Well, Daisy, the people that know, tell us that all the land we have was once at the bottom of the sea; so these rocks had their turn." "All the land ?" said Daisy.

"O that is what the Bible says!" "The Bible!" said the Captain in his turn.

"Pray where, if you please ?" "Why don't you know, Capt.

Drummond ?--when God said, 'Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.'" The Captain whistled softly, with an amused face, and stealthily watched Daisy, whose countenance was full of the most beautiful interest.
Almost lovingly she bent over the trilobite, thinking her own thoughts; while her friend presently from observing the expression of her face began to take notice anew of the thin and pale condition of the cheeks, that had been much healthier a week ago.
"You like to look at armour, Daisy," he said.
She made no answer.
"Are you still in the mind to 'die on the field of battle ?'" He guessed the question would touch her, but curiosity got the better of sympathy with him.