. Andiron tales . grand that havent any beaches?Whats the use of Delawares that havent any peaches? Whats the use— O, shut up Wheezy, interrupted the Poker angrily. Ofcourse you can go on like that forever, once somebody gives you theidea, but to have the idea in the beginning was the big thing. Colum-bus was a great man for coming to America, but every foreigner whohas come over since isnt, not by a long I say in my celebrated rhyme on Greatness: The greatest man in all the world, by far the greatest one,Is he who goes ahead and does what no one else has he must be the first
. Andiron tales . grand that havent any beaches?Whats the use of Delawares that havent any peaches? Whats the use— O, shut up Wheezy, interrupted the Poker angrily. Ofcourse you can go on like that forever, once somebody gives you theidea, but to have the idea in the beginning was the big thing. Colum-bus was a great man for coming to America, but every foreigner whohas come over since isnt, not by a long I say in my celebrated rhyme on Greatness: The greatest man in all the world, by far the greatest one,Is he who goes ahead and does what no one else has he must be the first if he would rank as some potaters,For those who follow after him are merelyimitators. Ha! ha! ha! laughed the are a great chap, Pokey—you, withyour poetry. I hope Tom isnt going to beaffected by the lessons you idea of saying that a man is *vvthe greatest man in the worldbecause he does what no one elsehas done! I guess nobodys nevereaten bricks up to now. Do you columbus was a great ^ 64 Andiron Tales mean to say that if Tom here ate a brick hed be the greatest man inthe world? No; hed be a cannibal, put in the Righthandiron, desirousof stopping the quarrel between the rivals. How do you make that out? demanded the Bellows. Because Tom is a brick himself, explained the Righthandiron;and just then slap! bang! the party plunged head first into whatappeared to be—and in fact really was —a huge snowbank. Hurrah! Here we are! cried Lefty, gleefully. Wh-where are we? Tom sputtered, blowing the snow out ofhis mouth and shaking it from his coat and hair and ears. Hi, there! Look out! roared Righty, grabbing Tom by thecoat sleeve and yanking him off to one side. A terrible swishingsound fell upon the lads ears, and as he gazed doggedly about him tosee what had caused it he saw a great golden toboggan whizzingdown into the valley, and then slipping up the hill on the other side. You had a narrow escape that time, said Righty, as theyexcitedly watched
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