") "Why, his _darters_, of course," was the
reply.
And how could any one do differently when the great Archon himself was
first and foremost in the fray, poking fun at all? "Don't do that," he
said one day to me when I put something unusual in the swine's mess,
"the hogs will all _die_ after it!" with a most serious look on
his pleasant face. In my seat at the table, looking down the hall to
where the Archon was, I saw him full of frolic, and oftentimes wondered
what he could joke so much about.
There was one occasion when he quoted Watts in a comical way to an
offending member which brought him to terms. It was at the Eyry. There
was a meeting of the Industrial Council. It was necessary to have a
quorum to pass certain important votes, and one of the members, being a
trifle weary of business, had stepped out to converse with a friend in
the vestibule. After a while, hearing some one coming, he slipped
behind the vestibule door. It was the "Archon," who came for the member
to make a quorum. Presently, discovering his retreat, he hailed him--as
he remembered it--thus:--
"'And are you there, you sinner d--d,
And do you fare so well!
Were it not for redeeming grace
You'd long since been in hell.
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