Your work, for an American, is most excellent; surprising.

But you are wrong in your theory of the development of the Angiospermae from Cycadeoidea dacotensis.

Da--all wrong--" I was interrupting him with considerable heat, for my conclusions from the fossil Cycadeoidea I knew to be my greatest triumph, when Larry broke in upon me rudely.
"Say," he spluttered, "am I crazy or are you?
What in damnation kind of a place and time is this to start an argument like that?
"Angiospermae, is it ?" exclaimed Larry.

"HELL!" Marakinoff again regarded him with that irritating air of benevolence.
"You have not the scientific mind, young friend," he said.

"The poonch, yes! But so has the mule.