A MEMORY TEST

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 238

A MEMORY TEST

A professor of mnemonics had gone to a lecture at or near Canterbury. After the lecture was finished he had to wait for his London train. It was a most comfortless day, and he retired to an inn for shelter and refreshment. To pass the time he began to exhibit his feats of memory to the yokels in the inn parlor, and one and all were thunder-struck except the waiter. There is one always - sceptic in every community, whether saints or sinners. Do what he could, he could not mitigate the acrid smile of acid incredulity of the glorified potman ! In the midst of one _ of his difficult feats the whistle sounded of the ' Only train to London to-night! 1 " and he rushed off to catch it. He caught it at the station, and his reputation caught it in the inn parlor, for the inn waiter — coming with some ordered refreshments and finding him gone — pointed to the corner where he had been sitting and exclaimed : ' Silly 'umbug; he's forgot his umbrella.'