Not that I have brought it here with that sole object.

The truth is that I am anxious to experiment with a lamp of my own design made--um--of native wood," and he departed in a hurry.
"When next old Bastin wants to tell a lie," commented Bickley, "he should make up his mind as to what it is to be, and stick to it.

I wonder what he is after with that paraffin?
Not going to dose any of my patients with it, I hope.

He was arguing the other day that it is a great remedy taken internally, being quite unaware that the lamp variety is not used for that purpose." "Perhaps he means to swallow some himself, just to show that he is right," I suggested.
"The stomach-pump is at hand," said Bickley, and the matter dropped.
Next morning I got up before it was light.

Having some elementary knowledge of the main facts of astronomy, which remained with me from boyhood when I had attended lectures on the subject, which I had tried to refresh by help of an encyclopedia I had brought from the ship, I wished to attempt to obtain an idea of our position by help of the stars.