Dr. Gallagher said he'd been full of it ever since he was a boy; and
Dean Drone said so had he.

Then a little further, as the Mariposa Belle steamed on down the
lake, they passed the Old Indian Portage where the great grey rocks
are; and Dr. Gallagher drew Dean Drone's attention to the place where
the narrow canoe track wound up from the shore to the woods, and Dean
Drone said he could see it perfectly well without the glasses.

Dr. Gallagher said that it was just here that a party of five hundred
French had made their way with all their baggage and accoutrements
across the rocks of the divide and down to the Great Bay. And Dean
Drone said that it reminded him of Xenophon leading his ten thousand
Greeks over the hill passes of Armenia down to the sea. Dr.
Gallagher said the he had often wished he could have seen and spoken
to Champlain, and Dean Drone said how much he regretted to have never
known Xenophon.

And then after that they fell to talking of relics and traces of the
past, and Dr. Gallagher said that if Dean Drone would come round to
his house some night he would show him some Indian arrow heads that
he had dug up in his garden. And Dean Drone said that if Dr.
Gallagher would come round to the rectory any afternoon he would show
him a map of Xerxes' invasion of Greece. Only he must come some time
between the Infant Class and the Mothers' Auxiliary.

So presently they both knew that they were blocked out of one
another's houses for some time to come, and Dr. Gallagher walked
forward and told Mr. Smith, who had never studied Greek, about
Champlain crossing the rock divide.