"Do you, Dick ?" "I've been forming an idea," Prescott went on.

"Our fault, if I can gather it rightly from what I've been reading, is that we Americans are inclined to be too babyish." "Tell that to the countries we've been at war with in the past," jeered Tom Reade.
"Oh, I guess it's a different breed of Americans that we send to the front in war time," Prescott continued.

"But, take you fellows; some of you have been almost kicking because breakfast is put off a bit.

Most Americans are like that.

Yet, it isn't because we have such healthy stomachs, either, for foreigners know us as a race of dyspeptics.