The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. - James Thurber

"Half the places I have been to, never were. I make things up. Half the things I say are there cannot be found. When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself."

"But why?"

"I thought the tale of treasure might be true."

"You said you made it up."

"I know I did, but then I didn't know I had. I forget things, too."

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...

"Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room.

"What is that?" the Duke asked, palely.

"I don't know what it is," said Hark, "but it's the only one there ever was.