"I never believed you got half-seas over, anyhow; but, to return to our muttons, why didn't you hand down a few varieties of the Therium family to posterity?
There were the Dinotherium and the Megatherium, either one of which would have knocked spots out of any leopard that ever was made, and along side of which even my woolly horse would have paled into insignificance.

That's what I can't understand in your selections; with Megatheriums to burn, why save leopards and panthers and other such every- day creatures ?" "What kind of a boat do you suppose I had ?" cried Noah.

"Do you imagine for a moment that she was four miles on the water-line, with a mile and three-quarters beam?
If I'd had a pair of Dinotheriums in the stern of that Ark, she'd have tipped up fore and aft, until she'd have looked like a telegraph-pole in the water, and if I'd put 'em amidships they'd have had to be wedged in so tightly they couldn't move to keep the vessel trim.

I didn't go to sea, my friend, for the purpose of being tipped over in mid-ocean every time one of my cargo wanted to shift his weight from one leg to the other." "It was bad enough with the elephants, wasn't it, papa ?" said Shem.
"Yes, indeed, my son," returned the patriarch.

"It was bad enough with the elephants.