In Winter Quarters 



the owner than those that carried his 

 lessons; being filled with names of 

 playmates or quotations or comment 

 of some sort on whatever happened to 

 be, at the moment, in his thoughts. 

 The star line, however, scrawled in 

 big letters with a lead pencil in the 

 front of the Latin reader is: "Silens 

 Aqua Currit Alta." 



While the sentiment underlying this 

 was of course far from original, the 

 Latin was his own, and he never took 

 the trouble to ask any real scholar how 

 far he had missed his way in trying to 

 Romanize a hackneyed phrase. The 

 old superintendent of the school was in 

 the habit of going around from one 

 room to another hearing lessons at 

 different hours in various studies. He 

 was the kindliest old soul that ever 

 lived; wore long whiskers becoming 

 silvered toward the last; and was pro- 

 fessor of everything. I am quite sure 

 that he did not know a lot more about 

 Latin than the children he piloted 



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