LIONS AGAIN 



you open fire on a half dozen lions in easy range. 

 Kind providence endowed you with strategy, and 

 certainly you should never go in where there is no 

 show for you to use your weapon effectively. But 

 occasionally the odds will be against you and you 

 will be called upon to take more or less of a chance. 

 I do not think it is quite square to quit playing merely 

 because for once your opponent has been dealt the 

 better cards. If. there are too many of them see if 

 you cannot manoeuvre them; if the grass is long, try 

 every means in your power to get them out. Stay 

 with them. If finally you fail, you will at least have 

 the satisfaction of knowing that circumstances alone 

 have defeated you. If you do not like that sort of a 

 game, stay out of it entirely. 



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