"What amuses you so much?" said my friend.
When I could control myself sufficiently to speak, I told him neither St. Matthew nor St. Mark ever wrote that story. It was written thousands of years before they were born. Jonah and the whale story belongs to the Old Testament.
"You don't say! Well, I'll be switched!" exclaimed my friend. "My only consolation," continued he, "is that the Judge didn't know any more than I did."
"That's a good story, Uncle Dick, but if your lawyer had a mother like mine when he was a boy, he never would have made such a ridiculous mistake about Jonah."
"Come, children," called Aunt Lucy, "it's past bed time."
"Good-night, Uncle. Good-night Grandpa Mischief."
[CHAPTER XI.]
Practising.