We've learned that there will be no more attempts on Richmond by sea.

The Yankee armies will come across Virginia soil or not at all." "I imagine McClellan won't be in any hurry to cross the Potomac," said Harry.

"He certainly got us into a hot corner at Antietam, and if the reports are true he had plenty of time to come up and wipe out General Lee's whole force, while Old Jack was tied up at Harper's Ferry.
They feel that way about McClellan in the North, too.

I've got an old Philadelphia newspaper and I'll read to you part of a poem that's reprinted in it.

The poem is called 'Tardy George.' Listen: "What are you waiting for, George, I pray?
To scour your cross belts with fresh pipe clay?
To burnish your buttons, to brighten your guns?
Or wait for May-day, and warm spring suns?
Are you blowing your fingers because they're cold, Or catching your breath ere you take a hold?
Is the mud knee-deep in valley and gorge?
What are you waiting for, Tardy George ?" "That's pretty bitter," said Harry, "but it must have been written before the Seven Days.