Only they've been getting worse while the rest of the world's been getting better.

Get your facts straight, man." A number of us were now listening to this, and I envied the historian his ingenious promptness--I have none--and I hoped for more of this timely debate.

But debate was over.

The anti-Englishman faded to silence.

Either he was out of facts to get straight, or lacked what is so pithily termed "come-back." The latter, I incline to think; for come-back needs no facts, it is a self-feeder, and its entire absence in the anti-Englishman looks as if he had been a German.