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literature lies at least the anticipation of true hap- 

 piness, and the ayes always have it. 



It does not make the slightest difference in the 

 world whether you and Friend Wife and the kids 

 ever really have that summer vacation together. 

 The important thing is that you shall long for it 

 and plan for it. Should you, by any chance, realize 

 a part of your plans, you will not in the least have 

 discounted the keener delight of having made the 

 plans themselves. Any sportsman knows this. I 

 should not like to say how many foreign lands I 

 have seen, what splendid trophies have fallen to my 

 prowess in my dreams ! Thus, in a wholly simple 

 and inexpensive fashion, I have visited the wildest 

 regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia, besides the 

 more prosaic regions of my own land actually seen. 

 I have slain lions, tigers, and elephants, I know 

 not what else in my dreams, just as you have in 

 yours. 



As you plan for your summer encampment, you 

 may visualize a hotel, a cottage, a tent, a shack, a 

 log camp. Any one of these will do handsomely, 

 but no doubt you will most enjoy some sort of 

 transient habitation all your own which you have 

 devised, which you have built, and where you may 

 have guests of your own, rather than live as a guest 

 in surroundings earlier shared by many others. In 



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