"Just think! Zac may be George Washington!"
"Well—you can't be too sure. You have all the good people in history to choose from, you know."
"Yes, of course. I guess, after all, he isn't George Washington. He is quicker and jumps about more." Then after another look into the dog's adoring face: "Besides, I don't believe any great man in history would be so awful fond of me as Zac is."
"Oh, he might be. Washington would have liked you, I think; although he might not have followed you about so closely."
Other famous men were mentioned: the Emperor Augustus, Magellan, Shakespeare, Daniel Boone and Fenimore Cooper—also Joan of Arc. But it was agreed by both father and son that the best known characteristics of those persons were not sufficiently obvious in Zac to make a clear case.
VII TOWARD THE LIGHT
The snow lay deep—and still it fell.