"What are Mr. Waldo's politics?"
"Though a most amiable gentleman and devout Christian, he belongs, sir, to—the Church Militant!"
"Is he a Filibuster?"
"Even so, sir! Mr. Waldo filibustered for the Old Thirteen, against George the Third, in the American Revolution!"
I am, my dear boys, as ever,
Your affectionate,
"Uncle Hal."
Footnotes:
[13] Speaking in one of his public lectures, of the recent discovery (amid the eternal snows of Siberia, I think), of the carcass of a mastodon, upon which the hunting-dogs of the explorers had fed—"Thus," said the great naturalist, "did modern dogs gorge themselves upon antediluvian beef!"