“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”

“In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”

“Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!''I hope not,' replied the reporter.”

“I say, you do have a heart!""Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”

“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”

“It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.”

“Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot."Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.”