Keeping Up with William / In which the Honorable Socrates Potter Talks of the Relative Merits of Sense Common and Preferred

by Irving Bacheller

CHAPTER III.—WHICH PRESENTS THE STORY OF THE SMOTHERED SON

Our dinner over, Mr. Potter put a new log on the fire. Then we set the table aside and lighted our cigars.

“There is another sector in the line of the Williamites that is pretty thoroughly dug in,” said the Honorable Socrates, as he put his feet upon the fender and leaned back comfortably in his chair. “Let me tell you the story of