The artist must have been drunk.' "Now, this insinuation pains me.

How would you like it if you painted a picture of the tower of Babel, and somebody should come along and insist that it was the chimney of a cotton-factory, and that the clouds with which the sky is covered were smoke?
Cotton-factory! Your man certainly cannot be familiar with the Scriptures; and when he talks about the ark sailing down that chimney, he forgets that the reason why it is standing on one end is that the water is so rough as to make it pitch.

You know the Bible says that arks did pitch 'without and within.' Now, don't it ?" "I think maybe it does," said the major.
"But that's not the worst.

I can stand that; but what do you think of a man that goes to criticising a work of art, and says--Now just listen to this: "'On the right is a boy who has his clothes off and has apparently been in swimming, and has been rescued by a big yellow dog just as he was about to drown.

What this has to do with the Triumph of Truth we don't know, but we do know that the dog is twice as large as the boy, and that he has the boy's head in his mouth, while the boy's hands are tied behind his back.