A school-teacher who had been telling a class of small pupils the story of discovery of America by Columbus, ended it with: "And all this happened more than six hundred years ago."
A little boy, his eyes wide open with wonder, said, after a moment's thought: "Gee, what a memory you've got!"
A Thing Forgotten
White owl is not gloomy;
Black bat is not sad.
It is only that each has forgotten
Something he used to remember:
Black bat goes searching . . . searching . . . .