We hunted all around through our minds for that name, using all the customary methods of research, but without success; the name was gone from us, apparently permanently.

We finally gave the matter up, and fell to talking about something else.

The talk wandered from one subject to another, and finally arrived at Twichell's school-days in Hartford--the Hartford of something more than half a century ago--and he mentioned several of his schoolmasters, dwelling with special interest upon the peculiarities of an aged one named Olney.

He remarked that Olney, humble village schoolmaster as he was, was yet a man of superior parts, and had published text-books which had enjoyed a wide currency in America in their day.

I said I remembered those books, and had studied Olney's Geography in school when I was a boy.