"Grass? It is grass, isn't it?"
"It is a comfort to find some people, and clever people withal, even more ignorant than I am. Snowdrops and scillas."
"Oh! I see, you are making progress, at least, I beg pardon, they are. I positively see some white."
"Now can you tell me what are hellebores?"
"Ask another!"
"That is worthy of Jim. You don't know?"
"But wait a bit, I have heard of them, I really have. Isn't it deadly nightshade, or something like that?"
I shook my head.
"It is worse to know wrong than not at all."
"But if you don't know, how do you know I am wrong?"