88 TROTTYS WEDDING TOUR.

Now if you come across any of these people, when you
have heard what I have to say, ask them if they have ever
heard the story of the Princeton student who had been
studying Berkeley? And tell them that you don’t know
what a Princeton student should study Berkeley for, but
that you have understood that it was for the purpose of
learning how Nothing was Anything but Ideas, and how
Ideas were Anything; and how when a man rode a horse to
town, and was run away with, it was not the horse that ran
away with him, but only an idea of a horse ; and how when he
fell down stairs and bumped his head, he had no occasion
to groan about it, since it was not his head which he had
bumped, but only his idea of his head. And tell them how,
one morning, the Princeton student had’hot mush for break-
fast ; and how he took one mouthful, immediately forgot his
manners, and roared loudly. And how the Professor sternly
asked him what was the matter. And how the Princeton
student, with the tears in his eyes, and his tumbler of water
at his mouth, said, “Sir! that was the hottest Idea I ever
got hold of !”? And tell them that if the Great Sea-Serpent
is an Idea, it is the most Sea-Serpent-like Idea you ever got
hold of.

Sitting here at my window with me, this July morning,
and looking Gloucester Harbor up and down, and over and
across, you would not believe yourself that anything so
horrible as a Sea-Serpent could get into it. You would see,
away at your right, the town, as dim and delightful as a