If a man is an aristocrat by nature, as I was, his neighborhood never could run down.

Wherever he lived would be the swell section, so that really your last argument isn't worth a stewed icicle." "Stewed icicles are pretty good, though," said Baron Munchausen, with an ecstatic smack of his lips.

"I've eaten them many a time in the polar regions." "I have no doubt of it," put in Doctor Johnson.

"You've eaten fried pyramids in Africa, too, haven't you ?" "Only once," said the Baron, calmly.

"And I can't say I enjoyed them.
They are rather heavy for the digestion." "That's so," said Ptolemy.