persons and the young masculine persons. Some are married, and some are flown, and some of them are grown up and different, 'and some of them in the churchyard lie, and some are gone to sea.'
"But whenever I've a fancy to shut my eyes and look back, I can see them all, a quaint company.
"Also, whenever I've a fancy to shut my eyes and look back to life when it was unspeakably brilliant in possibilities to look forward to, and was marked in parti-colored checks and rings, it fetches me to the days when I went to the Butte High School and studied geometry and Vergil. Only I'm glad I'm not there now."
"What for?" said my friend Annabel Lee.
"It is rather pitiful and dreadful to think of having been seventeen, and to have gone every day to the Butte High
