It must have been floating for ages." "It's my belief," said Featherstone, "that it's part of the provisions laid in by Noah for his long voyage in the ark.

So come, let's open it, and see what sort of diet the antediluvians had." "It may be liquor," said Oxenden.
Melick shook his head.
"No," said he; "there's something inside, but whatever it is, it isn't liquor.

It's odd, too.

The thing is of foreign make, evidently.

I never saw anything like it before.