After he had gone the German sighed again over his work: "Ah, Lord! So it is! Ah!" He thought of the ingratitude of the world.
"Uncle Otto," said the child in the doorway, "did you ever hear of ten bears sitting on their tails in a circle ?" "Well, not of ten exactly: but bears do attack travellers every day.

It is nothing unheard of," said the German.

"A man of such courage, too! Terrible experience that!" "And how do we know that the story is true, Uncle Otto ?" The German's ire was roused.
"That is what I do hate!" he cried.

"Know that is true! How do you know that anything is true?
Because you are told so.

If we begin to question everything--proof, proof, proof, what will we have to believe left?
How do you know the angel opened the prison door for Peter, except that Peter said so?
How do you know that God talked to Moses, except that Moses wrote it?
That is what I hate!" The girl knit her brows.