Seeing Things 



through the first declensions, and when 

 one day, in response to a previously 

 preferred request, each pupil had to 

 rise in turn and express in the ancient 

 tongue some " motto" or sentiment of 

 his or her own selection, this boy 

 worked off the line he had written 

 carefully down in his book, for fear he 

 would forget it at the critical moment. 

 He had not thought of the incident 

 for many years until he saw the old 

 green-backed book this afternoon, but 

 is still prepared to stand by the proposi- 

 tion that "still waters run high" as well 

 as deep. 



That book brought his first ac- 

 quaintance with ^Esop, and he has a 

 very vivid recollection of the impres- 

 sion made by the story of the boy who 

 smilingly denied having stolen a fox 

 which he had concealed inside his 

 tunic, even while Reynard was gnaw- 

 ing at his very vitals. Of course he 

 missed the point of the fable at the 

 time. He loved the ^Esopian gossip 

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