28/29 You see, my son, I'm so crammed full of information that if I began a discourse I could hardly stop under a couple of years; and that's too long for a lecture, you know. Then they might _encore_ it; and so I hardly think I'd better go in. No, I'll just trudge along in the old fashion." "Have you any views about the questions of the day? That's solid wisdom." Then, as the old man babbled on, he descended from the fence, shouldered his umbrella, and together the two started for the ferry. |