Tommy Twister’s Discovery THis is not one of those absurd stories about “Once upon a time” which tell you of things that happened before you were born. What does it matter to you what happened before you were born? If any- thing at all add happen before you were born, it was intended to amuse those people who lived then, and does not matter in the least to you. We read of all sorts of people who are said to have done things at that early period, and they are nearly always a nuisance | There are the kings and queens of Eng- land for instance, a set of worrying persons who insist on your learning their dates. 237