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He Skillfully Worked It In. 



An oratorical farmer, who often took 

 a prominent part in the lyceums and 

 the debates at his local grange, got in- 

 to the habit of winding up his vocifer- 

 ous arguments by shouting, "Give me 

 liberty or g^ive me death." He was a 

 good debater but his associates want- 

 ed to break him of the tiresome habit, 

 without telling him directly that he 

 was overworking Patrick Henry's well 

 known declaration. The committee 

 appointed to assign topics tor discus- 

 sion racked their brains to find a sub- 

 ject in which he could not so maltreat 

 Patrick Henry and his patriotic cry. 

 They selected the most practical, pro- 

 saic topic that they could think of: "Is 

 colic in a horse fatal?" They assigned 

 the negative side to the patriotic, war 

 clamoring farmer who proceeded in a 

 matter-of-fact manner to state that 

 colic can be cured. He had known 

 many such cases. He detailed the sim- 

 ple remedies and the proper treatment, 

 and declared that he would not regard 

 a horse suffering with colic as in great 

 danger, and then as he waxed warm 

 with his argument he became eloquent 

 and concluded his exposition in these 

 words : 



"And so, fellow farmers, I have 

 proved to you that after all colic may 

 be cured by the aid of simple remedies. 

 It is not a serious disease. We have 

 come to think of the painful outcome 

 more than the real cause which is 

 merely gas in the horse's stomach 

 which, if still kept compressed, results 

 disastrously, but if remedies are ap- 

 plied to release it then all will be well. 

 In other words, gentlemen," and here 

 he waved his hands aloft, "this thing 

 that we have regarded as a simple mat- 

 ter is merely gas, gas screaming out 

 to us, 'Give me liberty or give me 

 death.' " 



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The lack of knowledge of normal 

 students regarding the most elemen- 

 tary of common nature forms is aston- 

 ishing. An instructor in one of our 

 normals has made a careful record of 

 students entering his classes for a 

 number of years and he reports that 

 the average high school pupil coming 

 into his classes knows about eight 

 birds, eight trees and eight insects. 

 — Ora May Carrol in "The Nature- 

 Study Review." 



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