This spring starts right at the North Pole, right under the pole itself, dives away down into the earth, comes under Bering Sea and then under British America, and then under the lakes, and then under Ohio, and then under a part of Kentucky, and then comes out here especially to oblige us, this being a dry season." "I believe every word you say, Ohio," said Warner, "since your statements are proved by the quality of the water.

I could easily demonstrate it as a mathematical proposition." "Don't you pay any attention to him, Ohio," said Dick.

"He's from Vermont, and he's so full of big words that he's bound to get rid of some of them." "I'm not doubting you, Vermont," said Ohio.

"As you believe every word I said, I believe every word you said." "There's nothing extraordinary about them things," said another Ohio boy belonging to a different brigade, who was sitting near.

"Do you know that we swallowed a whole river coming down here?
We began swallowing it when we crossed the Ohio, just like a big snake swallowing a snake not quite so big, taking down his head first, then keeping on swallowing him until the last tip of his tail disappeared inside.