10/12 Do you see that signal-fire, and do you know its meaning? "It means that a merry company of picnickers took their lunch this noon at the Wonder Spring, at the foot of the great beech-tree. The wasps came out and plagued them, so they stuck burning grass into the hollow trunk, and consequently the whole tree was soon in flames. That is what you see burning now." "Manasseh, if you are lying to me!" "You know me. |