"Who's father?" demanded Clarence, with an encouraging expression of interest.
"George Washington's; this great man we are telling you of. One day George
Washington's father gave him a little hatchet for a—"
"Gave who a little hatchet?" the dear child interrupted, with a gleam of bewitching intelligence. Most men would have got mad, or betrayed signs of impatience, but we didn't. We know how to talk to children. So we went on:
"George Washington. His—"
"Who gave him the little hatchet?"
"His father. And his father—"
"Whose father?"
"George Washington's."
"Oh!"
"Yes, George Washington. And his father told him—"