“Between whom?”
“The British and Americans. We were going to have the President of the United States and Queen Victoria walk arm in arm up and down the floor, and never have war any more.”
In the confusion attendant upon the fall of the “spy,” the programme was not carried out as planned, and the shadows of those two eminent rulers never darkened the floor of the barn chamber.
“May war never happen, just the same!” said Aunt Stanshy.
Amen! so say we all of us.
[Chapter IX.]
The Cupola.
Aunt Stanshy was reading one day the list of prohibitions posted up against the post in the barn chamber.
“Charlie,” she said “I like what is said here, that no cross words and no bad words must be spoken here; but what does it mean when it says no one but the ‘treasury’ must climb the ladder and go up into the cupola? Does that apply to honorary members? and did you think that I might want to go there?”