"And I notice," the Auditor went on, "that there is a thing called a Cyclostyle put down in the accounts. Please will you tell me what a Cyclostyle is, and what use it is for purposes of elementary education?"
"With pleasure," replied the White Knight, who seemed quite cheerful again; "it's an apparatus for catching cycles, if any should take to going round and round the room when the children are at their lessons. It does it in style, you see."
"But," said the Auditor, "it's not very likely that any cyclists would care to wheel their machines into a Board School, is it?"
"Not very likely, I daresay," the Knight answered, eagerly; "but, if any do come, I don't intend that we shall be without a machine for catching them quickly. And the plan is my own invention!"
"I should suppose it was," the Auditor observed. "I am sorry to be obliged to disallow the costs of all these inventions, but the ratepayers must not he forced to pay for fads; and, as you take such an interest in them, I am sure you won't mind, paying for them yourself. Good-day!"
Heinrich Schliemann.
(BORN, JANUARY, 1822. DIED, DECEMBER 26, 1890)
Helen, who fired the topmost towers of Troy,
Should spare a smile for the North-German boy,