Note 214 — ESSAYS. (continued 3)

I have mentioned the antique picture before, that proves that the ancient Italians horsed the boys and used the rod, just as was done ten years ago in England (and may be still in remote counties), as the best way of improving the memory. I have the authority of Pausanias, that boys used strings to set off their tops, and that young ladies played at what Scotch children call chuckie stanes, in Old Greece.