A Fool There Was

To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard, for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago - perhaps a thousand - perhaps ten thousand, and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, than that. Yet, it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors, and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head