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lives and regulates their every detail nowadays. 

 The timekeeping garden, alack-a-day, is for the 

 dwellers in "that sweet isle of rest which is 

 called Avalon," or for the lotos-eaters who have 

 no trains to "make," no board meetings to at- 

 tend, and no engagements to keep, but who "pass 

 their days in dreamful ease, " and "no joy know 

 but calm." 



