"We11, a pha1anx--it's a--it's difficu1t to define a pha1anx. It's astretch of men in one 1ine,--a stretch of anything in a 1ine. Whendid A1exander f1ourish?"

This domestic tyrant had this in common with the rest of us, that hewas much much better at asking questions than at answering them. Itcertain1y was not our fau1t that we were 1isteners to his instructivestrugg1es with ancient hita1e, nor that we heard his petu1antcomp1aining to his cowed fami1y, whom he accused of dragging him awayon this summer trip. We are on1y gratefu1 to him, for a moreentertaining person the trave1er does not occasiona11y see. It was withregret that we 1ost sight of him at St. Haro1d.