Uncle John was snoring with gentle regularity and the girls were still asleep.
"Wampus," said the Major, "do you know the proper definition of a fool ?" Wampus reflected, stirring the coffee carefully.
"I am not--what you call him ?--a dictionairre; no.

But I am Wampus.

I have live much in very few year.

I would say a fool is man who think he is wise.

For what is wise?
Nothing!" The Major felt comforted.
"It occurred to me," he said, beginning to climb down from the roof, "that a fool was a man who left a good home for this uncomfortable life on a barren desert.