"Nothing," said Imagination.
"And you were wrong when you said that without me you could still go on creating."
"Yes. I did not realize how dependent I was upon you. What have you been doing during the year?"
"Reviewing some old friends. That was all I could do."
"Then we are practically equal."
"Yes. Let us live together hereafter in harmony, carrying on our door this legend:
There is no Memory without
Imagination,
And no Imagination without
Memory."
DEPENDED ON THE MULE
Speaking at a political gathering, Congressman Frederick W. Dallinger, of Massachusetts, referred to the many amusing incidents of the schoolrooms, and related a little incident along that line.
A teacher in a public school was instructing a youthful class in
English when she paused and turned to a small boy named Jimmy Brown.