Show reveries of a schoolmaster school master I 1 suppose that most of the boys whom I 1 taught still exist somewhere most of them must be still alive for they seemed in those days to be enjoying excellent health there must have been some seven hundred of them in moments ot of depression I 1 used to exclaim what will the line stretch till the crack a 0 doom I 1 used to picture myself as a pedagogical wa ter wheel turning turning in the educational cat ional sluice through which out of the everywhere into the here a stream flowed agitated me for a while and disappeared into the somewhere leaving nothing behind but a few negligible bubbles of all the boys not one has ever been president or governor or senator it if one has haa written a novel or a play I 1 have not read it some appeared above the surface of society for a brief period as halfbacks or third baseman but only to sink back bach into the common ruck this 6 again used to worry me it seemed a reflection upon my teaching cut but the years bring the tha philo sophie mind one can but do what one can robert M gay in the atlantic |