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argus-eye'd watchfulness, that I am ambidextrous 

 as a writer — that is, I can write with both hands. 

 In other days I think it was held that using the 

 left hand was just "pure cussedness," or crass 

 contrariness, but physiologists have shown that 

 the brain cells have all to do with this desire to use 

 the left or right hand. In a left-handed person 

 the motor area is on the right side of the head 

 and in a right-handed one on the left side. Old 

 nature does some peculiar stunts and this may be 

 classed as an example. Medical men do not know 

 why this condition should be but they do know 

 it exists. By constant and persistent use of the 

 right hand a born left-hander may, in a measure, 

 develop the brain function necessary to perform 

 certain muscular actions but he cannot entirely 

 overcome the desire or impulse to use his left 

 hand. 



GAMES AND SPOETS 



Even in those far-off days most country schools 

 had baseball teams, and I remember that our 

 teacher took a hand in our games on the school 

 ground and occasionally lammed the ball into a 

 neighbouring grain-field, causing long interrup- 

 tions while the spheroid was being recovered. 

 That an indignant farmer at times offered strenu- 

 ous objections to our romping about in his growing 

 grain to find the lost ball, was of trifling import. 



In the winter season, at the noon-day intermis- 



