It seems rather absurd, standing there with rocks nobody wants to throw--especially when there are so many other things to be doing--and everybody saying, 'I've got to keep mine because he's got his.' Would you call that a very intelligent gang of kids?
Ferguson says it's the workingmen of the world will bring about disarmament.

That they're coming to feel their common cause as workers too keenly to be forced into war with each other." "That's what the man that mends the boats says," piped up Worth.

"He says that when they're all socialists there won't be any wars--'cause nobody'll go.

But Watts says that day'll never come, thank God." "Are you thanking God for yourself or for Watts, sonny ?" laughed his father.

"And who, pray, is the man that mends the boats ?" "The man that mends the boats, father, is a man that's 'most as smart as you are." "It has been a long time," gravely remarked Wayne, "since any man has been brought to my attention so highly commended as that." But their talk had been sobering to them both, for they spoke seriously then of various things.