I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.