"And the torpedo went at the monitor!" Little girl.

"My monitor is not to sink!" Little boy, dramatically: "And bang the monitor sank!" Little girl.

"It didn't do any such thing.

My monitor always goes to bed at seven, and it's now quarter past.

My monitor was in bed and couldn't sink!" When I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Leonard Wood and I used often to combine forces and take both families of children out to walk, and occasionally some of their playmates.