SHORT COMMENTARIES
 

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
 

1 am satisfied that the moral benefits which gen¬
tlemen receive from my instruction are fully equal
to the knowledge they gain from my learned notes.
They all receive, in point of fact, a double course in
my room, — a course in Latin and a second course
in Moral Philosophy.

II

When I went to school for the first time, I was a
very little fellow. I don't suppose that my school
bills in those days were more than six dollars a
quarter, and yet those old-fashioned schoolmasters
used to teach some pretty learned things.

Ill

When Bishop Polk of Louisiana left the Church
and entered the army, it wasn't very long before a
cannon ball came along and blew his head off. I
haven't a doubt that it was a solemn judgment on
him.