The people of Glasgow were very kind and appreciative.
CHAPTER X[ToC]
HIS MAJESTY THE KING, AND FIELD MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONORABLE VISCOUNT KITCHENER
"Did they bury him standing on his head, or the other way on?"
We, that is to say, Mr. J.R. Robinson, editor of the Toronto Telegram, and I stood in Westminster Abbey at the spot in the hallowed floor where "Rare" Ben Jonson had claimed his foot of ground, and we were playing "Innocents Abroad" and having some fun with our guide. He told us that he was a Swiss and that he had shown "Buffalo Bill," "Sir" Thomas Edison, and other famous Americans about the place.
"I guess they stood him up on his feet," answered the guide.
"Was he the man who wrote the dictionary?"