"That explains something I have never before understood," said Fred, as he laid aside his pen for a moment.
"What is that?" Frank inquired.
"OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA."
"Why, we often read in the papers at home about the price of 'Old Government Java Coffee.' It is the coffee the government buys of the producer, and then sells in the market."
"Exactly so," Frank responded. "That bit of information will interest a good many boys in America."
"And men too," chimed in the Doctor, who was sitting in an arm-chair close at hand, and watching the clouds as they rolled over the mountain in the background of the view from the veranda.
"I want to know," said Frank, "how the enterprising general proposed to compel the people to work in the fields and cultivate the crops, when they might spend their time under the trees, and pluck the fruit when they needed it to supply their wants."