premise: A Treasury of the World 's Great Letters , Simon and Schuster , N.Y. , 1940 ) in which he relates how he sends his native boy up a palm tree , where he cuts off a couple of vast nuts .
hypothesis: A Treasury of the World 's Great Letters , Simon and Schuster , N.Y. , 1940 ) in which he relates how he sends his native daughter up a palm tree , where he cuts off a couple of vast nuts .