[Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookSketches New and Old PART FIRST 3/73
When we want your opinion on scientific matters, we will hasten to let you know.
Your coolness is intolerable, too--loafing about here meddling with august matters of learning, when the other laborers are pitching camp.
Go along and help handle the baggage." The Tumble-Bug turned on his heel uncrushed, unabashed, observing to himself, "If it isn't land tilted up, let me die the death of the unrighteous." Professor Bull Frog (nephew of the late explorer) said he believed the ridge was the wall that inclosed the earth.
He continued: "Our fathers have left us much learning, but they had not traveled far, and so we may count this a noble new discovery.
We are safe for renown now, even though our labors began and ended with this single achievement. I wonder what this wall is built of? Can it be fungus? Fungus is an honorable good thing to build a wall of." Professor Snail adjusted his field-glass and examined the rampart critically.
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