Major Hockin, will you kindly answer him ?" "Square," said the Major; "square for both." And the waiter, with a glance of pity at me, hurried off to carry out his order.
"Erema, your mind is all up in the sky," my companion began to remonstrate.

"You ought to know better after all your travels." "Then the sky should not fall and confuse me so," I said, pointing to the Milky Way, not more than a yard above me; "but do tell me what he meant, if you can.

Is it about the formation of the soup ?" "Hush, my dear.

Soup is high treason here until night, when they make it of the leavings.

His honest desire was to know whether you would have a grilled bone of mutton, which is naturally round, you know, or of beef, which, by the same law of nature, seems always to be square, you know." "Oh, I see," I replied, with some confusion, not at his osteology, but at the gaze of a pair of living and lively eyes fastened upon me.