A new system of memory training was being taught in a village, and the teacher was becoming enthusiastic. “ For instance,” ho said, “ supposing you want to remember the name of a poet—Bobby Burns. Fix in your, mind’s eye a picture of a policeman in flames. See—Bobby Burns?” Yes, I see, said a bright pupil. “ But how is anyone to know it does not mean Robert Browning?” Guest (to hotel clerk): 11 Have you a room with running water ?”_ Clerk: “Wo did have, hut wo repaired the roof last autumn.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21415, 19 May 1933, Page 6
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