TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
could. I puzzled over it for months. I tried it. I find I can. It is my greatest discovery."
"We cannot believe you!"
"Go tell John. He will corroborate me. He refused to tell before, which showed a deficient moral sense in John—or as Hegel would put it"
They led him away. He was right about John, as it proved.
"And yet, you know," he said to the head attendant when they took him to the insane asylum where he is to-day, "I believe I fooled my sense of oughtness worst of all!" and laughed heartily over his discovery.
Now, you see, if he had only mingled more with other fellows and had taken a little exercise now and then—but you see what comes of too much study. Why are you wriggling around now? A great mistake if I think you are poling too much? But can't I see with my own eyes the dark rings under yours? Polers so often pretend not to be polers. There was Poler Perkins, and Poler Stevenson, and Poler Stacy. Poler Stacy's case was quite different.
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