There was no intimation that he had done.
"Dear me!" murmured Gideon, politely.

The other Whipples made little sounds of amazement and approval.
"You want to know what the third eye of wisdom is ?" continued Dave, as one who had read their secret thought.

"Well, it's the simple gift of being able to look at facts as they are instead of twisting 'em about as they ain't.

The most of us, savages, uneducated people, simples, and that sort, got this third eye of wisdom without knowing it; we follow the main current without knowing or asking why.

But professors and philosophers and preachers and teachers and all holy rollers like socialists ain't got it.