human
And this, Messieurs, is the jaw-bone of a cave-bear--the competitor, one might say, in the matter of lodging-houses, with the gentleman whose anatomy we have just inspected. Here are bones of hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, which he hunted with the weapons you saw. And the object on which your arm is reposing, Madame, is the tooth of an elephant. Our ancestor must have been pretty costaud to kill an elephant with a stone.
gpt
Elephants? she queried.
human
Did elephants scramble about these precipices and ravines? I should like to have seen that.
gpt
Pardon me, Madame. He probably killed them down there, and his arm swept over the blue Mediterranean, lying at our feet.
human
Do you mean to say that elephants paddled across from Algiers in order to be assassinated by your old skeleton? I should like to have seen that.
gpt
Pardon me, Madame. The Mediterranean did not exist in those days.