We DID sow--' 'Shut up,' said Noel again.

'Look here, Oswald.

We did sow those dragon's teeth in Randall's ten-acre meadow, and what do you think has come up ?' 'Toadstools I should think,' was Oswald's contemptible rejoinder.
'They have come up a camp of soldiers,' said Noel--ARMED MEN.

So you see it WAS history.

We have sowed army-seed, just like Cadmus, and it has come up.