“No doubt, but there are others with no doubts who believe to this day!”
“Probably, Conseil. But as for me, I’m bound and determined not to accept the existence of any such monster till I’ve dissected it with my own two hands.”
“Yet,” Conseil asked me, “doesn’t master believe in gigantic devilfish?”
“Yikes! Who in Hades ever believed in them?” the Canadian exclaimed.
“Many people, Ned my friend,” I said.
“No fishermen. Scientists maybe!”
“Pardon me, Ned. Fishermen and scientists!”
“Why, I to whom you speak,” Conseil said with the world’s straightest face, “I recall perfectly seeing a large boat dragged under the waves by the arms of a cephalopod.”
“You saw that?” the Canadian asked.
“Yes, Ned.”