I, unfortunately, didn't learn it in my youth, and I have never had perseverance enough to struggle with it since.

Something led me to take down this brochure the other day--an old attempt of mine to write about the weathering of rocks.

It was printed in '76, and no sooner had it seen the light than friends of mine wanted to know what I meant by appropriating, without acknowledgement, certain facts quite recently pointed out by Professor Pfaff of Erlangen! Unhappily, Professor Pfaff's results were quite unknown to me, and I had to get them translated.

The coincidences, sure enough, were very noticeable.
Just before you came in, I was reviving that old discomfiture.' Peak, in glancing over the pages, murmured with a smile: '_Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt_!' 'Even so!' exclaimed Mr.Warricombe, laughing with a subdued heartiness which was one of his pleasant characteristics.

And, after a pause, he inquired, 'Do you find any time to keep up your classics ?' 'By fits and starts.