If A Cat Does Something, We Call

[footnote:] The Dotterel Weighs Only Four Ounces. It Has Long Been A Scientific Riddle How So Much Wrong-headedness Can Manage To Exist In So Small A Space. Still, There's The Least Gnatcatcher.

Ah, Well! We Live And Learn, Or, Anyway, We Live.

I Hear So Many Things About Who I Am Supposed To Be I Hardly Know What To Believe. I Am Willing To Tell All, But What Is It? Doubtless All These Myths And Legends Will Be Straightened Out Eventually, But It May Take Years.

Aristotle Maintains That The Neck Of The Lion Is Composed Of A Single Bone. Aristotle Knew Nothing At All About Lions, A Circumstance Which Did Not Prevent Him From Writing A Good Deal On The Subject.

[footnote:] Pliny The Elder Described A Whale Called "balaena Or Whirlpool, Which Is So Long And Broad As To Take Up More In Length And Breadth Than Two Acres Of Ground." This Brings Up Again The Old Question: Are The Classics Doomed? Our Ancestors Believed That Four Years Of This Sort Of Information Would Inevitably Produce A President, Or At Least A Cabinet Member. It Didn't Seem To Work Out That Way.