“Where?” asked Martin flippantly.
“Wasn’t he a patriot and a man of brains and—and blameless life?” pursued Stacey.
“I guess so,” assented Martin doubtfully.
“All right! Garibaldi invented onions, didn’t he?”
Martin viewed him suspiciously. “Well, maybe he did, but I’ll bet he didn’t eat them! Carbol invented carbolic acid, but he didn’t drink it, did he?”
“Garibaldi,” remarked Bob gravely, “made onions his principal diet: ate them three times a day and fed his army on them!”
“Oh, well, he was an Italian,” said Martin. “I’m talking about folks in this country.”
“George Washington invariably began the day with a raw sliced onion,” said Bob. “History tells you that.”
“Sure,” asserted Stacey. “Wasn’t it Washington who said ‘In onion there is strength’?”