One afternoon, when the Grants were resting on the porch of the summer White House at Long Branch after lunch, their son Buck suddenly got up, vaulted over the porch railing, and disappeared.
”Did you see that, Julia?” said Grant playfully. “Now if you were sitting here alone, and the railing extended across the steps, and the cottage caught fire, you must be rescued or burned.”
”You think so!” cried Mrs. Grant defiantly. Then she jumped up and vaulted over the railing the way Buck had done and then stood below laughing at her husband.
Source:
Boller, Paul F. "Julia Dent Grant." Presidential Wives. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 143-44. Print.
Source:
Ross, General’s Lady, 228-29.
Further Reading:
No comments, yet...