Promptly arrived an acid letter from a friend: "How did you get on the piano?"
Doubtless she visualized me in scandalizing progress through the west, leaping from piano to piano.
The school incident reminds me of my peripatetic education. My father was a railroad claim agent and attorney, his work seldom keeping him long in one place. As a result I graced the high schools of six different communities, and happened to be in Chicago when graduation day rolled around. During the first turmoil after our London arrival, cablegrams came from at least four communities, each one doing me the honor of claiming me as its very own. Beyond proclaiming the fact that I spent more time in Atchison, Kansas, than anywhere else, discretion, it seems to me, dictates silence as to other comparative allegiances.
A considerable crop of poetry, verse, and rhyme is chargeable to our flight, some of it far
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