Eastern Utah Advocate | 1902-11-27 | Page 6 | Anecdote of John Fiske

ANECDOTE OF JOHN great historian placed in somewhat embarrassing position the late john flak fiske the historian was a man of enormous stature and extremely e about any reference to his unusual size one occasion when be he was visiting a friend at his homo home in a it beautiful town in connecticut the hostess and ber daughter invited sir mr hake to drive with them one morning the road was a picturesque one which winds along the river at the foot of luo the mountains at one point the hostess suggested that the barty and walk a short distance through the neld field to g t a particularly ticul arly attractive view aroi nd this field was a high fence with no opening but a narrow stile the ladles ladies parsed through and turned to wait for their guert for a moment he contemplated the opening to squeeze brough was wits impossible to climb over was equally impracticable finally bis his deep bass voice broke the silence ladle ladles I 1 think we would better con dinue our drive argonaut