In Winter Quarters 



well-worn grammar or arithmetic. 

 The fact is the boy was known to 

 have a sort of mania for discovering 

 faces in all sorts of unexpected places : 

 sometimes in the fire; sometimes in 

 clouds; sometimes in the rocks; some- 

 times in the trees ; sometimes in flowers ; 

 sometimes here; sometimes there, but 

 always and forever he was finding 

 pictures that were apparently over- 

 looked by 'most other people. And it 

 was rarely he took the trouble to ask 

 anyone else to try to see what he was 

 seeing. Sometimes after a lot of ex- 

 planation someone would grudgingly 

 agree, but more frequently on such 

 occasions he would be told he was 

 crazy, and that there was nothing there 

 at all. This he resented because he 

 knew better; and when something of 

 particular interest appeared he felt 

 very sorry sometimes because com- 

 panions did not share with him the 

 humor of some visionary gargoyle's 

 grinning countenance, the elusive 



