eplied the Count, "by the spectacle
you have provided. Dear Baron, it was a panorama calculated to convert a
continent!"

"To vat should it convert him?" inquired the Baron with interest.

"To a creed even merrier than Socialism, more convivial than
Total Abstinence, and more perfectly designed for human needs than
Esperanto--the gospel of 'Cheer up.'"

"Sheerup?" repeated the Baron, whose acquaintance with the English
words used in commerce and war was singularly intimate, but who was
occasionally at fault with terms of less portentous import.

"A name given to the bridge that crosses the Slough of Despond,"
explained the Count.

The Baron still seemed puzzled. "I am not any wiser," said he.

"Never cease thanking Heaven for that!" cried Bunker fervently. "The
man who once dubs himself wise is the jest of gods and the plague of
mortals."

With this handsome tribute to the character and attainments of one of
these heroes, and the Baronial roar that congratulated the other, our
chronicle may fittingly leave them; since the mutual admiration of
two such catholic critics is surely more significant than the colder
approval of a mere historian.

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