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THE GALLEON
summer on the Gulf would have
considerable difficulty finding it
at El Paso.
The above statement does not
contain all of the geographical
errors. The Texas cities are sad-
ly misplaced. San Antonio is a
city on the Mexican border.
Perhaps so, but I venture that
it is further from the border
than the author of the article
under comment could walk
in a couple of days. Then we
learn that Dallas and Ft. Worth
are twin cities a few miles from
the mining center, El Paso. This
may be partly true. It all de-pends on how far he means
when he says a "few miles." If
he means it to be as far as one
of Henry Ford's chariots wi'
run. on two or three tanks oi
gasoline, he is perfectly correct.
if he means a lesser distance
than this, he is aboslutely
wrong. I read a little bit furth-
er and learned that Sweetwater
was the railway center of Tex-
as. By this time I was complete-
ly dissatisfied with my purchase
and threw it aside. I decided
that almanacs are alright in
their place, but that their place
is the trash pile--Hero Worship
Chapple HardyIt is but human to be a wor-
shipper of the heroic. This be-
gins at the cradle and ends at
grave. Especially is this true of
youth. The lad is one day the
Ulysses of mythology busily en-
gaged in beseiging Troy. Again
he is the Black Knight attacking
the castle in which Lady Ro-
wena is held captive. In his
fancy, his home is the castle and
its occupants the besieged. He
brings his bow to his shoulder,
takes careful aim at a loop hole,
and lets drive. Smash, in goes a
second-story window. A terrible
witch appears on the scene; a
shingle begins to create consid-
erable friction on various and
sundry parts of his anatomy-
indeed, these regions seem to be
under-going the process of cre-
mation. He comes out of his
trance to find himself prone on
the maternal apron.
Hero worship changes fromfancy in the small to realism in
the older one. Wonder of Won-
ders! He meets, "The Swiss
Family Robinson." " Robinson
Crusoe" next appears before his
sparkling eyes. For days the boy
is hunting with his gun, his dog,
and the servant Friday. The ma-
ternal modesty is again severe-
ly shocked when the goat-skin
carpet is appropriated by the
would-be Crusoe.
Well do I remember my sin-
cere appreciation for Jim Haw-
kins as he struggled with the pi-
rates. He journeyed through
sweet dreamland with me. My
sleep was often disturbed by the
roar of the guns of Hispinola
With my assistance, Jim was al-
ways able to overcome the pi-
rates. I also had a tender feel-
ing toward the man in "The Pit
an the Pendulum." The fierce
blade of destruction swung low
over my breast; I could feel thet34
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