10. May was sitting on father's knee. "Dad," she said, "I suppose you are the very first man who has ever been right round the world." "Of course he is," said Tom.
11. Father laughed. "No, my dear," he replied; "thousands of men had been round the world before I was born."
12. "I'm so sorry," said May. "I did so want to tell the girls at school that my father was the very first man who ever went round the world."