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THE. GUIDE TO NATURE 



"Aly friend Dr. Bigelow, finding- him- 

 self near his lK)}diood scenes, in the 

 country, hunted up an old playmate 

 who was not at home. The Doctor en- 

 joyed the qtiaint old farmhouse and its 

 surrotuidings, and wc.s truly envio'>.:s oi 

 the owner. He took a photograph ot 

 the hotise, and later sent a copy of it to 

 his old time acqtiaintance. There was 

 no answer to the letter enclosing the 

 photograph, and the Doctor learned 

 later that his boyhood companion call- 

 ed him all sorts of names, and said 



"I sometimes hear a man complaining 

 about having been born mto tiie world 

 against his will, an e^•ent concerning 

 which he had no chioce. Vv hat an un- 

 grateful wretch ! If you were born 

 blind, and could have sight as a reward 

 for being good for a period of ten years, 

 how very, very good you would be for 

 ten years at least. The complainer us- 

 ually has first rate eyes. If you were 

 born deaf, how good you would be if 

 you were to be given ears as a reward 

 of merit. The complainer usually has 



THIS ROCK INSPIRES A "TOPIC" FAR AHEAD IN THE "TO-MORROW." 



"Odd folks belonging to some strange new nation will come aiid sit upon the rock at the foot of my 

 garden two thousand years from next June." 



that if he was protid of living in a bet- 

 ter house in the city, he ought not to 

 taunt anybody by taking a picttire of 

 the old farmhouse and sending it to 

 him. How many people there are in this 

 world surrounded by beatitifid things 

 and envied bv others but not aware 

 of it." 



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"Men are best judged by their attitude 

 toward other people, because that re- 

 presents their tuiconsciotis and un- 

 guarded expression of personal feeling 

 for the degree of need for self protec- 

 tion. 



first-rate ears. With all his gifts a man 

 is ungrateful. He obtained his gifts 

 for nothing and consequently does not 

 value them." 



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"I have always refused to look at life 

 as anything excepting a good game of 

 sport, with its proportion of good losers 

 and bad losers among my friends. 



"Would you like to know right now 

 everything you will ever know? 'Yes!' 

 That would spoil the game ! You are 

 not a good sport ! 



"If we knew everything at once it 

 would be like playing a game of cards 



