BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



perience tells Mm that a certain interval 

 indicates the absence of undue haste, 

 and of the pernicious incidents that 

 attend it. Thus these untutored people 

 can gauge, with very fair accuracy, the 

 psychological state of a person two miles 

 away! 



By what right indeed one calls them 

 untutored I do not know, for they have 

 been all their lives at the best school in 

 the world. They have learned to see 

 with their eyes and hear with their ears, 

 a touch tells them the age of a footprint, 

 taste approves or rejects food and 

 water, and the sense of smell is strik- 

 ingly developed. All their knowledge 

 is co-ordinated, and available when 

 wanted: muscle and eye have been 

 taught to work in harmonious relation. 



The habitant, not the city but the 

 country dweller, is a man of his hands. 

 Give him the simplest tools, the roughest 

 material, and he will fashion you boat, 

 house, cart or violin. A broken shaft or 



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