He wasintroduced to the big wooden images of the Three Kings, of painted andgilded wood, who bring the gifts to the children at Christmas; for Spainis a country where the affairs of the children bulk large in the life ofthe home.
"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) And he pointed to where the big black bulk of Mandeville stood with hisback to them, talking to the ladies who had summoned him forth into thevestibule.