MONUMENT TO THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Then followed the questions of the little children, often difficult to answer as everybody knows, and which even puzzled, old Kaspar himself:
"Now tell us all about the war,
And what they killed each other for."
"It was the English," Kaspar cried,
"Who put the French to rout;
But what they killed each other for
I could not well make out.
But everybody said," quoth he,
"That 'twas a famous victory."