"I say 'tis white-oak."
"I say it's red-oak."
"Well, I say it's white-oak."
"I tell ye 'taint white-oak."
Here they had joined issue for the first time.
"I say 'tis."
"I say 'taint."
"I'll bet ye ten thousand dollars of it."
"Well, I'll bet you ten thousand dollars!"
Such were the very words of a conversation I have just heard between two children, the elder about six, the other about five. Were not these miniature men? Stock-brokers and Theologians? or only Land Speculators?