I remember
how vaguely I used to wonder who it was that was going to grease
her knees and why she should feel called upon to have them greased
at all. Also, I shall pass over the instance of Abou Ben Adhem,
whose name led all the rest in the golden book in which the angel
was writing. Why shouldn't it have led all the rest? A man whose
front name begins with Ab, whose middle initial is B, and whose
last name begins with Ad will be found leading all the rest in any
city directory or any telephone list anywhere. Alphabetically
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.
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