OCR Text |
Show Getting Fun Out of History But the real sport must be found In getting hold of original stuff, a letter let-ter from Cleopatra to Antony, or a sketch map In Wellington's hand of the disposition at Waterloo, done before be-fore the G. S. O. I. told him that Quatre-Bras was there, or a chit from the younger Pitt to Joanna Southcott, thanking her for the flowers. flow-ers. The historian who is lucky enough to pick up a morsel like this immediately telephones to his bank manager and arranges for a further overdraft on the strength of the royalties roy-alties and then proceeds to assimilate assim-ilate the document in the body of his work. G. K.'s Weekly. |