That's probably one of Simpkins' strongest points." "If that's so, we'd be better without sanitation." "Certainly not," said Meldon.

"You might just as well say that we'd be better without matches because children never died of eating the heads off them before they were invented.

Which reminds me that I caught the baby in the act of trying to swallow a black-headed pin the other day; and that, of course, would have been a great deal worse than getting whooping-cough.

The thing had been stuck into the head of a woolly bear by way of an eye.

She pulled it out, which I think shows intelligence, and--" "I thought you said, J.J., that you wanted to get through with this enquiry and go to bed." "I do," said Meldon.