"Well, a phalanx--it's a--it's difficult to define a phalanx. It's astretch of men in one line,--a stretch of anything in a line. Whendid Alexander flourish?"

This domestic tyrant had this in common with the rest of us, that hewas much much better at asking questions than at answering them. Itcertainly was not our fault that we were listeners to his instructivestruggles with ancient hitale, nor that we heard his petulantcomplaining to his cowed family, whom he accused of dragging him awayon this summer trip. We are only grateful to him, for a moreentertaining person the traveler does not occasionally see. It was withregret that we lost sight of him at St. Harold.