But Young Audubon, who had been lying on the floor, examining Emilius from the tip of his tail to the snub of his snout, was enraptured,-so enraptured that the chelonian, as he called it, was pressed upon him as a free gift, regretfully declined because of certain prejudices on the part of a devoted but unscientific mother.
"Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road"
Katharine Lee Bates
"Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor.
"Essays on Scandinavian Literature"
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen