In Winter Quarters 



more or less, illuminating. The owner 

 in this case is still living, and I am 

 well acquainted with him. He doesn't 

 know half as much now as he did when 

 he first graduated, but is still studying, 

 and is firmly of the opinion that by the 

 time he is forced to stop he will have 

 reached the point where a little real 

 knowledge might begin to be accumu- 

 lated. But when the old school bell 

 called him for the last time with these 

 books he honestly thought his educa- 

 tion was finished. Interesting- to fall 

 upon an old spelling book that once 

 occupied a real place in the life of some- 

 one you have known, isn't it? 



The owner of these old books had 

 one obvious obsession : Each and every 

 big round O appearing on the title 

 pages had been transformed into a 

 face with eyes, nose and mouth duly 

 inserted inside the circle, with a pair 

 of ears on the outside. The latter were 

 sometimes small and placed human- 

 fashion at the sides of the O, but more 

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