On the surface we're friendly enough and our governments always express in diplomatic relations the most cordial good will; but I've always noticed in the English individual an undercurrent of antipathy for Americans that cannot be disguised.

As a race the English hate us, I'm positive, and I wonder why ?" "I believe you're wrong, Uncle," remarked Patsy.

"A few of the British may individually dislike us, but I'm sure the two nations are not antagonistic.

Why should they be ?" "Yorktown," muttered the captain.
"I don't believe it," declared the girl.

"They're too good sportsmen to bear grudges." "All the same," persisted Uncle John, "the English have never favored us as the French have, or even the Russians." From Dunkirk to Ostend, by the coast line, is only some twenty-five miles, yet although they started at a little after eleven o'clock it was three in the afternoon before they finally landed at the Belgian seaport.