as You Were Bill Author:Edward Streeter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: who painted Rafyuls Dyin Munk. They had me there. I got thinkin of the things Id forgot till I got scared. I tried to get Angus interested. He said as long as... more » he could remember week ends on Saturdays he was satisfied. When I told him his brain was like a sive he said it was just as solid as mine if not more. I bet he couldnt tell me who the Pry Minister of Itily was. Angus says he wasnt goin to get into no religious argumints. His grandfather got killed in one. The only place Angus is up to times is quittin hour. Then hes ahead of them. I explained to him about the fello in Kokomoko, Oklo. All you had to do to get like him was tear of a cupon. Then they sent you the course. If you didnt like it you could send it back without payin a cent. Angus couldnt see whod be simp enuff to like it under those conditions. So we tore of a cupon. The first lesson was about rememberin peoples names. It certainly is simple. You conect them with their faces. Funny nobody ever thought of that before. For instance suppose a fello came in the office with big whiskers on. He said his name was Brice. If you hadnt had your memory trained youd probably try to remember that. An the next time he came in youd just look at him with your mouth open. Then hed get sore "the First Thing You Think Of is A Walrus" an walk out an wouldnt come back any more. If your memorys trained its different. You look at his whiskers an the first thing you think of is a walrus. That makes you think of the artik. That makes you think of ice. That makes you cold — brr. There you are. Whenever youd see this fello youd grab his hand to give yourself a chance to think. Then youd say "Walrus, artik, brr — ice, Brice." Only youd say it to yourself of course. Then out loud youd say " Hello there, Mr. Brice." That tikkle...« less