rock, Lief pulled up his anchor and sailed home to Norway.

    No one could decipher the Runes, but everybody suspected what they meant.

    And Lief was justly punished for his rudeness, his statue stands (so runs the tale) in the Fenway of Boston to this day.

    America was not discovered again for nearly five hundred years.

    Then Christopher Columbus took a hand, but though he made four trips to the New World, Columbus carelessly neglected to write a book or even a magazine article on his Impressions of America.

    A new path in Navigation, just as in Art or Literature, once shown, is easy to follow, and seven years later an Italian plagiarist named Amerigo discovered America all over again and copyrighted the whole continent in his own name.

    By this time, as the accompanying map will show, the continent of America had gained considerably in bulk and offered an easy mark

    to the horde of discoverers who came in the wake of Amerigo.

    And still they come—and though it is too late to secure a copyright on the continent they never fail to copyright their impressions of America.

     BOSTON

    In spite of many laudable attempts, America was never seriously discovered until the year 1620 when the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts a cargo of Heirlooms, Boston Terriers, Beans and Ancestors.

    Thus were established the three leading industries of Massachusetts, the manufacture of genuine antique furniture and Pedigrees (Human and canine).

    BOSTON is a centre of Gravity completely surrounded by Newtons.

    BOSTON is also the centre of the Universe.

    The great poet Anonymous has immortalized Boston as

      “The home of the Bean and the Cod

     Where Lowells speak only to Cabots

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