The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

| been thinking" But thus far all OF your
correspondents and inqulrers appear to me
to be properly classified as being boys.
because none OF them has penetrated the
sacred precincts prior to 1850. Yesterday
| you endeavored to go to 1870. I will try
70 go a bit further. My distinct recollec-
| ton Is that In 1859 or 1860 ! heard this
verse as a part OF an extended song at
Laura Keene's Theatre, Broadway near
| Houston street, as the principal attraction
in n play called THE Ice King" or some
title similar thereto. Although consider
ably passed beyond the allotted three
score years and ten" my heart still re-
spends TO the enthusiasm then created in
| my boyish breast by the charms of the
Harrison Sisters. who had principal parts
In the play. II you have any boys to
| antedate me trot them out. W. IL. G.
note that you speak OF Reuben and
Cynthia" sung In Hoyts "Trip to China
town. as the same song as "~euben and
Rachel" was Hoyt's version not vari-
ant on the older song? remember one
verse not quoted in Reuben and Rachel:
Reuben, Reuben. i've been thinking
What a strange thing IL would he
II all the water In creation
Should turn salty as the sea
Cynthia. Cynthia. I'VE been thinking
And In II you may take my word.
II II happened half the population
Would not know It had occurred
II In my Impression that the other Hoyt
verses were In like topical" vein.
J. c. II.
Now that our feet IL watching and
waiting AZ Vera Cruz. do you or any OF
your gladly contributing readers recall
the name OF tho Captain General Of that
torrld port who once was famous In verse?
GEORGE n. WAKEMAN
Capta!n-Gen made known to the world
by Charles Godfrey Leland.
There was Captain Genernl who ruled In
Vera Cruz
And what we used 10 hear Of him was
always evil news.
He was a pirate on the sea a roober on
the shore.
The Senior Don Alonzo Estaban San Sal.
vsdor
There was Yankee skipper who round
about did roam,
His name was Stephen Folger and Nam
tucket was his home
And having gone to Vera Cruz he had
been skinned full sore
BY the Senior Don Alonzo Estaban san
salvador
But how the don was trimmed r. turn
will De found set forth IN Burton Steven
sons Home Book OF Verse" at page 1853.
i know you object most stoutly TO the
| locution "of that INK but why Object
u J WRrNS
Why should any object TO "of that ill<" >
l Certainly none whose fond,st hopes look
/ toward Caledonia 1t is fine locuton
and not TO be replaced. equally not to De
misplaced. The objection lies to the m -
placement. when an ignorant person writes
OF mice and rats and others OF that ilk
he shows ignorance. for. the thing Is inn
! possible. Xix. retained In the Scottish dia-
lect OF English. IL good Anglo Saxon
word In the sense Of the same. Its use
In Scotland is to save repetition where the
name OF man and OF his Hardship are
Graham, Graham Of Erik. Graham of Lar
bert, Graham OF Netherhy, but the only
Graham Of that ilk IL Graham Of Graham,
and that Is the Duke Of Montrose him
self. There is the proper use OF tho
phrase. but what IT Is supposed t. mean In
common writing is one OF those tn ngs
which Lord Dundrcary characterized as
things no fellow can find out.
on looking at the articles under
/ Geometry" Circle" square" &C. In
several encyclopedias the reader Is re.
ferred amCng other text books To Casey =
Sequel to Euclid" Casey Trlp 1numetty.
81. Perhaps some 81 your readers can
tell M who Casey VAS. as / could find
only S!las Casey and an Irish Rshop IN
several encyclopedias and Biographical
works which / consulted al the New YORK
Library. The clvii service page OF a
British weekly some time Hco contained
the following answer To a students query
Read Hlugh's Higher Arithmetic Han
Knights Algebra ana Clsey's Euclid
From the above II is evident he was a
native OF he British Isles c. u.
DIR. John Casey was an eminent writer
OF text books upon the elementary teach.
ing OF the properties OF plane surfaces
He was a fellow ~ the Royal Society
Most Of mis- books We're published In
Dublin in the SOS aad have not been en-.
tirely supplanted 10y more modern treat.
ises upon geometry and triGonometry
In Twelfth Night" IS the saving "ths
trout that must be caught with tickling"
what sort Of fishing Is that riscAToR
It's eight years since that question has
been propoundcd perhaps folk read
Shakespeare less or care not 20 much
about the methods OF taking trout. Vet
tickling a trout, crede eNperto Is the best
Of the arts Of fishing, even II not of gent,
| angling. It's fairer game, for you enter
/ the trouts own element instead 81 lur'ng
him out of the water, and If YOU can grip
| finger and thumb In a cold rFe about the
| sides OF a wary trout you have earned =
JOY In triumph over tho waricst 90 FISH
| The art has "A name. guddling, which IS
/ found In All the dictionaries and may add
confirmation 10 this statemt Mt Of one who
has guddlcd. SIN further cunhrmatiO ION
may be found IN Lorna poono." fine
story OF how John Rldd went guiding az
, Bagworthy Water and what he found
I thpre In he nn,pa rl.n B.V,pI