CALVIN COOLIDGE
ture. Plane geometry completed our mathematics. In the modern languages there was only French.
In some subjects I began with the class when it started to review and so did the work of a term in two weeks, I joined the French class in mid year and made up the work by starting my study at about three o'clock in the morning.
During the long vacations from May until September I went home and worked on the farm. We had a number of horses so that I was able to indulge my pleasure in riding. As no one else in the neighborhood cared for this diversion I had to ride alone. But a horse is much company, and riding over the fields and along the country roads by himself, where nothing interrupts his seeing and thinking,, is a good occupation for a boy. The silences of Nature have a discipline all their own.
Of course our school life was not free from pranks. The property of the townspeople was moved to strange places in the night. One morning as the janitor was starting the furnace he heard a loud bray from one of the class rooms. His investigation disclosed the presence there of a domestic animal noted
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