"Don't you know you are entering Wonderland, where you must be sure to have your driver point out to you the most remarkable geyser in the world, for it throws up hot blocks of ice."
Tall Tales
A Tale: A Bedtime Story — Osborne Russell, 1835
"The repast being over, the jovial tale goes round the circle, the peals of loud laughter break upon the stillness of the night which, after being mimicked in the echo from rock to rock dies away in the solitary gloom."
M. Mark Miller, Author 