My Shipmate—Columbus

Laughter brought spots of color on his cheeks. He stood there for a while, taking it, and then decided that he would be enough and sit down. A whisper of amusement still stirred the room when he returned to his seat, and the professor said: “But just a moment, Mr. Jones. Could you tell the class what makes you think that Columbus was not a “bold skipper” in history? the books say that he was. After all, Mr. Jones, this is a history lesson. If you know more or better history than history books, is it not your duty to tell us? "