"Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies."

"If we do not add something to the knowledge of cosmic rays by our trip to the stratosphere this summer, we had better…"

"When you fly a balloon you don’t file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You a…"

"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"• Let the future historian, if he will, add beauty of expression and the charm of polished diction to this plain, unp…"