A revolution, indeed, went on at Athens, from the time of Solon to the time of Kleisthenes, which essentially modified the old tribal divisions and admitted to the franchise all such families resident from time immemorial as did not belong to the tribes of eupatrids by whom the city was founded.

To Solon Denney the thing came as a deep and divine relief.

Her greeting of Solon Denney was a thing to behold with unalloyed delight.

Two minutes after Solon had looked up in some astonishment from his dusty, over-piled desk, they were arrayed as North and South in a combat of blithest raillery.

Miss Caroline sat in Solon's battered chair with the missing castor, surveyed his exchange-laden desk with a humorous eye, and seized the last Argus, skimming its local columns with a lively interest and professing to be enthralled by its word-magic.

she asked Solon.

"A battered old woman!" said Solon to me later.

Solon Denney, though in his heart true to Shakspere, affected to be gleeful.

" I knew that Solon considered Miss Caroline to be an irresistible force.

Miss Caroline, I believe, went to be scolded by Clem for her trifling ways, while I sought out Solon Denney.

I believe Solon is often quite as uncertain, but he will never confess this, so that talk with him under such circumstances stimulates if it does not sustain.

As any common catalogue of troubles will not provoke Solon from a happy unconcern which is temperamental, I spared no details in my recital, and I observed at length that my listener was truly aroused to the bad way in which Miss Caroline found herself.

Solon, you dazzle me!

"You've solved it, Solon.

" But Solon interrupted soothingly.

Two hours later Solon bustled into my own office, whither I had fled to forget his manifest incompetence.

Solon grinned.

Well, that's a good idea, Solon, but you and Mrs. Potts are slow.

" "Bosh!" said Solon.

" "Bosh again!" said Solon.

I had Solon's word for it; but that which followed the writing will not cease within this generation or the next to be an affair of the most baffling mystery to our town folk.

It would have been as full of defects as the legislation of Solon or Lycurgus or the Abbé Sieyès.

It was described in 1850 by Solon Robinson, an Iowa farmer then on tour as correspondent for the American Agriculturist.

And Solon Robinson reported tersely from a rice plantation that the negroes plied their hoes "at so slow a rate, the motion would have given a quick-working Yankee convulsions.

"The custom which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right, is said to have been introduced about the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator.