The Last Shot 



— Have you with heed perused 

 What I have written to you ? 



— CORIOLANUS. 



Plutarch says : " Kecreation is the sweet sauce of 

 labor," a fact of which the American business man, 

 who usually swallows his labor with no sauce at all, 

 should make a note. 



" What so strong 

 But wanting rest, will also want the might? 

 The Sun that measures heaven all day long, 

 At night doth bait his steeds the ocean waves among." 



The labors of old Sol, to be sure, are a little out of 

 the line of the business man, but not so much out of it 

 that he can afford to disregard the example or declare 

 that rest and recreation are but snares, 



Delusions mere, inventions of the devil, 



to bamboozle the thrifty and keep up the world's 

 stock of drones. If the devil did invent them I have 

 a much higher opinion of him than usually obtains, 

 and the proverb is right — the old fellow is " not as 

 black as he's painted." 



"What I have recited in the foregoing pages com- 

 prises but a few of the many pleasant and exciting in- 



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