Did we ride behind your father's oxen ?" After a moment he said: "That remark would be prized by the Chinese.

We did.

And you most graciously professed to enjoy it, which earned my deep gratitude and admiration.

For no one knows better than I," he added meekly, "that it is no great comfort or pleasure to ride behind my father's oxen." She smiled retrospectively.

"Do you remember how the people on the porch hurried to the railing ?".