CHAPTER II.
HOW A PRESIDENT IS BRED Mr.Patrick Henry Hanway, a Senator of the United States, had the countenance of a prelate and the conscience of a buccaneer.

His grandfather--it was at this old gentleman, for lack of information, he was compelled to stop his ancestral count--was a farmer in his day.
Also, personally, he had been the soul of ignorance and religion, and of a narrowness touching Scriptural things that oft got him into trouble.
Grandfather Hanway read his Bible and believed it.

He held that the earth was flat; that it had four corners; and that the sun went around the earth.

He replied to a neighbor who assured him that the earth revolved, by placing a pan of water on his gate-post.

Not a drop was spilled, not a spoonful missing, in the morning.