rms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
Made to his mistress's eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard;
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
SHAKESPEARE, _As You Like It_, Act II, Scene 7.

CHAPTER IV

REPORTING ACCIDENTS

"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

I. Assignment

Report an accident which you have seen. The object of this exercise and
those which are to follow is threefold:

1. Vocational--to begin to teach the art of reporting, and hence
perhaps lay a foundation for students' earning a living.

2. Ethical--to show all the pupils how a report should be made and
thus give them a standard by which to measure newspapers.

3. Artistic--to teach all how to write modern English clearly,
simply, and correctly.

II. Model

This is a report of an accident on a city street, witnessed by a
reporter, and telephoned to a colleague at the newspaper office.

With a crash that could be heard for blocks, a high-powered
touring car, owned and driven by Mrs. William J. Sheldon, wife
of the millionaire gum manufacturer, who lives at East Boulevard
and Clifton Drive, collided late last night with a heavy milk
wagon at Payne Avenue and East 30th St. Both Mrs. Sheldon and
John Goldrick, 656 East 105th St., driver of the milk wagon,
escaped injury, except for a few minor cuts and bruises.

Mrs. Sheldon was driving east on Payne Avenue on the way to the
Pennsylvania Station at Euclid Avenue to meet her husba