That settles the question as to what shall we do with our ex-presidents.

They can be used to scare rhinos away." On hearing this story I remembered that the thick-skinned rhino is sometimes used by cartoonists as a symbol for "the trusts," and the story seemed doubly appropriate as applied to this particular ex-president.
Some member of our party then modestly advanced the suggestion that the colonel might some day be back in the White House again.

He laughed and said that the kaleidoscope never repeats.
"They needn't worry about what to do with this ex-president," he said.
"I have work laid out for a long time ahead." Another member of our party then told about the Roosevelt act in _The Follies of 1909_, in one part of which some one asks Kermit (in the play) where the "ex-president" is.

"You mean the 'next president,' don't you ?" says Kermit.

When Colonel Roosevelt heard this he was immensely interested, not so much in the words of the play, but in the fact that Kermit had been represented on the stage--dramatized, as it were.
And as we left for our own camp the colonel called out: "Now, don't forget.