“‘Fools all,’ said the sheriff.
“‘Fools all,’ said the horsemen.
“‘Let us go back,’ said the sheriff, ‘and report to the king that the people in Gotham are fools.’
“‘Right,’ said the men.
“So they returned to the king, and reported that Gotham was a place of fools. And from these circumstances, or incidents like these, if I may believe an old tale, the men of that place were called, in derision, ‘The Wise Men of Gotham,’ from that day.”
CHAPTER IX.
A SERIES OF MEMORABLE VISITS.
Tommy goes hunting.—“Peveril of the Peak.”—The Boy at the Wheel.—Leamington.—Stratford-on-Avon.—Shakspeare’s Birthplace, Garden, and Tomb.—Queer Relics.—Kenilworth.—Ernest’s Album of Leaves and Flowers.—Warwick Castle.—The Mighty Guy.—The Antique Portress.
MASTER LEWIS gave the boys a couple of days in Nottingham to enjoy themselves as they liked.