In Winter Quarters 



always lies so near the tears? Have 

 we so soon forgotten Sir Tobey and the 

 Dromios? Why not therefore high 

 comedy as well as great romance and 

 tragedy effectively dispensed at differ- 

 ent hours and seasons from the self- 

 same monument? 



And while on this subject, many of 

 you have seen of course the famous 

 Lafayette group of statuary opposite 

 the White House grounds in Washing- 

 ton. The marquis high upon his 

 pedestal with a flowing drapery de- 

 pending from an extended arm looks 

 down upon a female figure placed in 

 supplicating posture at his feet. The 

 lady looks up appealingly into the 

 hero's face and holds aloft for him to 

 grasp a sword. America pleading for 

 his help perhaps; but once upon a 

 time a sacrilegious wag remarked, after 

 studying the situation, that the woman 

 is really giving expression to a very 

 elemental human thought: "I say, 

 old Top, please hand me down my 

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