 Thou art a lad of wondrous quick working wit, for on my honour I had never thought of it so before, and I see your meaning. But fie on gravity! Is it not the most comical and ridiculous thing in the world to think of them all going about their business and never dreaming that under their peaceful fields and floors only a fathom down there is a great army ready to break out upon them like a fountain? And they never have suspected.