You watch for the next one and see if I am not right. Heated arguments with newspaper men have been my lot when I have scoffed at the sea serpent myth. The last one was with the editor of a great New York paper. Just because you haven't seen it you think it can't exist. You make me tired.
Arguments are of no avail.
The average person wants to believe in sea serpents and he or she is going to believe in them, no matter what facts are presented to the contrary. I suppose they feel as I felt as a child when other children tried to make me believe that there wasn't any Santa Claus. Newspaper men like sea serpents, of course, because they give good copy. A story like that can be kept alive for days. I've said that most of the stories are the result of faulty observation.