John, this is my son, Harry.

Harry, this is Major John Warren of Mason County and the regular army of the United States; he does not think as we do, but even at West Point he was a stubborn idiot.

He and I were continually arguing, and he would never admit that he was always wrong.

I never knew him to be right in anything except mathematics, and then he was never wrong." Major Warren smiled and sat down by his old comrade.
"You've a fine boy there, George," he said, "and I suppose he probably takes his opinions from his father, which is a great mistake.

I think if I were to talk to him I could show him his, or rather your, error." "Not by your system of mathematical reasoning, John.