"Or, my juvenile friends," says Chadband, descending to the level of their comprehension with a very obtrusive demonstration in his greasily meek smile of coming a long way downstairs for the purpose, "if the master of this house was to go forth into the city and there see an eel, and was to come back, and was to call unto him the mistress of this house, and was to say, 'Sarah, rejoice with me, for I have seen an elephant!' 
"Or, my juvenile friends," says Chadband, descending to the level of their comprehension with a greasy smile, "if the master of this house was to go forth into the city and there see an eel, and was to come back, and say to the mistress of the house, 'Sarah, rejoice with me, for I have seen an elephant!' 