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mind redintegrated. I have given the quotation verba- 

 tim, having re-read it once rapidly, imaging. Think I 

 shall never forget it. 



As I re-read, I recalled that, at the expression 

 " Great Lakes," I pictured them as known in the 

 geography, and immediately compared that picture 

 with my experience on the Great Lakes from Duluth 

 to Buffalo. A whole week on that surface ! that I could 

 cover with my one little hand when I began to study 

 geography. Then I enjoyed again the placid surface of 

 Superior. I heard the captain say that in his experience 

 of twenty-five years, he had never seen the Lakes so 

 calm as on this last trip from Buffalo and this return. 

 I saw the sun set in the blue water. Such a blue ! It is 

 said there is nothing like it save near the Bahama 

 Islands. I took my glass and was enraptured with the 

 " pictured rocks." A feeling of dread for Lake Huron 

 crept over me, yet, when we reached Lake Huron, not a 

 ripple could be seen. In brief, all the details of that 

 happy week thronged upon me, and, in the sub-conscious, 

 was a vast area of water on which I saw away in the dis- 

 tance a little speck that might be a vessel ! Why I 

 looked for a war vessel, I cannot tell. 



Thus you have my experience, save an emphasis in 

 details omitted. I stood amazed. Yes, reading without 

 imaging was exactly what I was guilty of ! And 'twas 

 nothing new, I had done it previously and have done it 

 since. But I'm enjoying the effort at maturing out 

 such a destructive habit, and I believe I'll conquer ! 



Should the brief history of an accident be related to- 

 night to ten people, we seriously doubt that two of the list- 

 eners would report the history accurately on the morrow. 



Relying upon the fickleness of memory, lawyers strive 

 to confuse the witness of his opponent, fully conscious that 

 truth imperfectly remembered never makes so good a 

 showing as falsehood well memorized. 



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