"This is indeed the biggest thing in _deluges_ this little old world has ever known.

The Preadamite Steel Trust is a dewdrop alongside of it.

Noah gets the _salvage_, but the _people_ get the _water_!" * * * * * Such was the attitude of the public toward my son's great project, and all I could ever get him to say in reply to these and other equally nefarious charges was, while he had intended to have quarters for every kind of beast on board his boat, he had now definitely decided to leave out Mastodons, Muck-Rakers and Yellow Journalists! Verily there seems to be some foundation to the belief that devotion to the life of a seaman makes a man callous to assaults on his personal reputation!.