"Then, how could we see it?—from a railway train—or from a steamship?"
Cyrus smiled. "Yes, you could see it that way—if you wished."
"But how do you know we have never been there?"
"I don't."
"You only think it."
"Yes, I only think it. You may have been there. I am quite sure, however, that you have not."
"But why so sure, Cyrus? You have been there yourself."
"Yes."
"And what man has done man can do."
"Yes, sometimes, but not always, Billy. Only one man has eaten, for instance, a certain huckleberry. And, as a rule, only one man marries his own particular girl. You, for instance, have seen the top of Trinity spire, but you have never been there."