As Ye Hoe so Shall Ye Reap 



usually has an infinitely better chance 

 for happiness than had Hannibal, and 

 that the "drawer of water" does not by 

 any means necessarily need your sym- 

 pathies. On the contrary. More than 

 half our troubles grow out of an utter 

 misconception as to who is to be really 

 pitied, who envied. 



If you want to hoe for gold dollars 

 and nothing else, do it. I shall not. 

 I want coin enough to satisfy the 

 grocer, tailor and landlord, but I have 

 not hoed and will not hoe only toward 

 the mint. I never was good at figures, 

 anyhow. My marks in arithmetic when 

 a school boy were apt to be disgrace- 

 ful. Fractions and finance have never 

 interested me half as much as 

 finches, and it takes a good mathema- 

 tician to make a hatful of money; one 

 who loves the inexorable algebraic 

 equation. When I went higher up, 

 however, the case was different, for 

 geometry made its great appeal to the 

 heights and depths that deal with 

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