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invented a proverb. " He has an eye, and so has a needle," 

 must be a companion proverb to " He has a head, and so 

 has a pin." As some one said (forget who, but look him 

 up), ''Let who will make the nation's songs, I'll do the 

 proverbs." 



This suggests rules for making a nation. First, begin 



with inventing a set of proverbs. Then I don't quite 



see the next step at present ; but to anyone who wants to 

 start a new nation (and there must be some wanted by this 

 time) it's well worth consideration. 



These ideas occur to me while I am on my road to call 

 on Clumber, the flyman, about that horse he's got, which, 

 I've heard from Spoker, the carriage-builder, or carriage- 

 mender (I think he must be a carriage-mender, as I've 

 often seen him at work mending a carriage, but never 

 caught him building one), tells me, is, in his (Spoker's) 

 opinion, " Just the very thing to suit me." 



Must be on my guard in dealing with anyone about a 

 horse. Can't get out of my head the rhyme that first 

 occurred to me when I thought of calling on Clumber, the 

 flyman. As I must get it out of my head at some time or 

 other, so as to allow the brain free action for other subjects 

 {Note. — Most important to read up Dr. Carpenter's Lectures 

 on Brain. I think I see something new for Typical De- 

 velopments., Vol. II., Thirteenth Edition, revised, corrected, 

 and with considerable additions, under " B " for Brain), I 

 put it into my pocket-book thus : — 



" Simple SiMOX 

 Met a flyman 



