Slocum went on the scout early the next morning. He saddled up Oro in the freezing cold and rode north toward the wild place that had been designated a national park in 1875, Yellowstone.

“Political itching—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch, or venereal disease.

[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

This negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry.