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will be always in the minority. In what 

 sense are their scowls and growls of ser- 

 vice ? Who is benefited by their every 

 minute and the every minute of the poor 

 wretches in their clutches being devoted 

 to drudgery and health-destroying ? No 

 one not even themselves, nor their 

 weakling offspring. 



And the jovial man of kind heart who 

 raises up the very victims of these sour- 

 mouths and restores broken-hearted men 

 and their shattered homes he is but a 

 frivolous thing! If so, frivolousness is 

 godliness, and let us all hope our children 

 may be thus afflicted. 



But away with all talk of the low- 

 spirited ! Our path is the path of the 

 cheerful; so let us return to our merry 

 trio, the fat doctors and their good friend 

 Seth. 



". . . Accordingly we find that those parts of 

 the world are the most healthy where they subsist by 

 the chase ; and that men lived longest when their lives 

 were employed in hunting, and when they had little 

 food besides what they caught." W. JONES. 



