----Then the points of my forceps have not been sufficiently arm'd, or the rivet wants closing--or else the cut in my thumb has made me a little aukward--or possibly--'Tis well, quoth my father, interrupting the detail of possibilities--that the experiment was not first made upon my child's head-piece. 
'Then the points of my forceps have not been sufficiently armed, or the rivet wants closing - or else the cut in my thumb made me a little awkward - or possibly-'
''Tis well,' quoth my father, interrupting, 'that the experiment was not first made upon my child's head.'
