"It would be a good thing to do," said he, "and I think I can put you in the way."
"And I do hope," said Alice, eagerly, "that if we are ever tested in that way we shall bear the test."
"Dear Uncle Fritz, if we cannot invent a flying-machine, and have not learned how to close up rivets this winter, we have learned at least how to bear each other's burdens."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] These are the quinqueremes, fastened together, of the other account.
[2] The estimates of a talent vary somewhat, but ten talents made about seven hundred pounds.
[3] Quoted in Fabricius's Greek fragments.
[4] Encyclopædia Americana: art. "Roger Bacon."