Speaking of Rocks 



by those who love the land of the ilex 

 and the vine. Some of the scenes that 

 this particular stone has looked upon 

 if pictured here might possibly bar 

 this little book from modern mails. 

 The other is clearly a fragment of a 

 cornice, and we know for a fact that 

 it certainly looked down upon still 

 earlier generations; because I saw it 

 rescued from dirt and debris piled up 

 by laborers excavating with pick and 

 shovel, under the direction of learned 

 antiquarians, in the lowest levels 

 reached in recent times in the explora- 

 tion of the Roman Forum. It was 

 probably never seen therefore by either 

 Cato or Cataline. It is beautifully 

 carved, carrying a delicately chiseled 

 Grecian design that may be seen today 

 on any structure built on strictly classic 

 lines. And if you have just a little of 

 the gift of "seeing things," and will 

 place it by your side as you read 

 your Virgil, you will easily grasp 

 the fact that this marble fragment 

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