D.—He—he drawed a bowie knife! If you please, sir, I—I’d like another place.
McK.—You are right, my good man. You shall be Minister to China.
THE GENESIS OF A NATION
Hay, Secretary of State. Morgan, a Southern Senator. Telephone.
Morgan—Mr. Secretary, I have startling and important news: the State of Panama has seceded from Colombia!
Hay—You don’t say so!—this is so sudden!
Mor.—Yes, sir, it is true.
Hay—Well, well! Who would have thought it?
Mor.—I trust, sir, this removes the last scruple that the Administration may have had against immediate construction of the Nicaraguan Canal. The war down there will——