organized as he was, Mr. Adhem just naturally had to lead; and
yet for hours on end my teaches consumed her energies and mine in
a more or less unsuccessful effort to cause me to memorize the
details as set forth by Mr. Leigh Hunt.

In three separate schoolbooks, each the work of a different
compilator, I discover Sir Walter Scott's poetic contribution
touching on Young Lochinvar--Young Lochinvar who came out of the
West, the same as the Plumb plan subsequently came, and the Hiram
Johnson presidential boom and the initiative and the referendum
and the I. W. W. Even in those ancient times the West appears to
have been a favorite place for upsetting things to come from; so
I can't take issue with Sir Walter there. But I do take issue
with him where he says:

So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung!

Even in childhood's hour I am sure I must have questioned the
ability of Young Lochinvar to perform this achievement, for I
was born and brought up in a horseback-riding country. Now in
the light of yet fuller experience I wish Sir Walter were alive
to-day so I might argue the question out with him.

Let us consider the statement on its physical merits solely. Here
we have Young Lochinvar swinging the lady to the croupe, and then
he springs to the saddle in front of her. Now to do this he must
either take a long running start and leapfrog clear over the lady's
head as she sits there, and land accurately in the saddle, which
is scarcely a proper thing to do to any lady, aside from the