Show PHILOLOGY RUN BUN MAD the passion for philology and dealva tion searching may occasionally matle made a man inan as hopelessly one sided as the bicycle fever there was an old professor in middleton conn not long lone ago aero whose love for philology was such that the broader principles of language were generally disregarded in a minute search tor for the orthographic particles binding an ordinary english word to its aryan or assyrian prototype whit while all this was a source of exquisite pleasure to the good old dr it was a germ of specific discontent to his classes the men under him grew tired of the minute linguistic meanderings in which the good doctor indulged finally one of the bolder of the malcontents resolved to alve the doctor a hint with mock modesty he arose and quietly said bald doctor I 1 have been thinking a good deal lately upon the derivation of eld dle town what Is your own idea of it ahem said the doctor really sir I 1 am afraid that Is a subject which will require much concentrated reflection now might I 1 ask sir whether you have discovered any light on the subject oh yes replied tile the young man with a demure smile it Is my firm belief that middletown Is derived from moses sir why bless nil my soul exclaimed the doctor with a hasty glance over his spectacles to assure himself that the young man was waa in earnest A and n d pray sir how holl do you derive 1 middletown 1 ad d latown from moses easily eti enough ough doctor replied d the student by dropping oses and adding middletown iddle liddle town Ilar harpers pers drawer |