“I can’t,” replied Guy.
“Who was the third President of the United States?”
“I don’t know.”
“What were the names of the two men who were hanged in effigy by the Massachusetts colonists when the news of the passage of the Stamp Act was received?”
“I don’t know,” said Guy again.
“And yet that is just what we have been reading about to-night. I saw a picture in that paper you had in your possession a little while ago,” continued Mr. Harris with suppressed fury. “It was a man dressed in furs, who stood leaning against a horse, holding a gun in one hand and stretching the other out toward a dog in front of him. Who was that man intended to represent?”
“Nick Whiffles,” said Guy promptly.
“What was the name of his dog?”
“Calamity.”
“Did his horse have a name?”