Sinners stood around the yard all day and every day, criticising the model; one scoffer pretended he thought her a canal-boat, and asked how deep the flood was likely to be on the tow-path, and whether we intended to use mules in shallow water and giraffes in deep; another asked what time allowance we expected to get in a fifteen-mile run, and hinted that a year and two months per mile struck him as being the proper thing--" "It was far from pleasant," said Noah, tapping his fingers together reflectively.

"I don't want to go through it again, and if, as Raleigh suggests, history is likely to repeat herself, I'll sublet the contract to Barnum here, and let him get the chaff." "It was all right in the end, though, dad," said Shem.

"We had the great laugh on 'hoi polloi' the second day out." "We did, indeed," said Noah.

"When we told 'em we only carried first- class passengers and had no room for emigrants, they began to see that the Ark wasn't such an old tub, after all; and a good ninety per cent.

of them would have given ten dollars for a little of that time allowance they'd been talking to us about for several centuries." Noah lapsed into a musing silence, and Barnum rose to leave.
"I still wish you'd saved a Discosaurus," he said.