Fins i tot el Gloriós Quatre fou, en cert sentit, una fallida, perque plogué de valent: no hi hagué, doncs, comitiva, i l'home més gran del món (segons Tom suposava), el senyor Benton, un autentic senador dels Estats Units, resulta una aclaparadora decepció, perque no tenia vint-i-cinc peus d'altura, ni els mils.
Even the Glorious Fourth was in some sense a failure, for it rained hard, there was no procession in consequence, and the greatest man in the world (as Tom supposed), Mr. Benton, an actual United States Senator, proved an overwhelming disappointment--for he was not twenty-five feet high, nor even anywhere in the neighborhood of it.