"He couldn't digest the wheels." Noah looked approvingly at his son, and, turning to Barnum, observed, quietly: "What he says is true, and I will go further and say that it is my belief that you would have found the show business impossible if I had taken that sort of creature aboard.

You'd have got mightily discouraged after your Antediluvians had chewed up a few dozen steam calliopes, and eaten every other able-bodied exhibit you had managed to secure.

I'd have tried to save a couple of Discosaurians if I hadn't supposed they were able to take care of themselves.

A combination of sea-serpent and dragon, with a neck twenty-two feet long, it seemed to me, ought to have been able to ride out any storm or fall of rain; but there I was wrong, and I am free to admit my error.

It never occurred to me that the sea- serpents were in any danger, so I let them alone, with the result that I never saw but one other, and he was only an illusion due to that unhappy use of stimulants to which, with shocking bad taste, you have chosen to refer." "I didn't mean to call up unpleasant memories," said Barnum.