THE RED COW 



much of her nature. It may seem to serious-minded 

 people that I might be better employed than in 

 studying the smile of a pet pig, but I do not think 

 so. In future I shall be on my guard against sleek 

 citizens who habitually wear Clementine's smile. 

 You know I have been misled in the past by Shake- 

 speare's lines: 



"Let me have about me men that are fat, 

 Sleek headed men and such as sleep o' nights." 



I had an idea that fat men are usually good- 

 natured and honest, and that that was why Caesar 

 wanted them in his Cabinet. But when I recall the 

 actors who played with Booth I remember that most 

 of the conspirators who killed Caesar were fat. 

 Moreover, I remember that in his recent book on 

 dieting Vance Thompson asserts that most of the 

 men guilty of the crimes of high finance are fat men. 

 Though he didn't say so, I am willing to bet a cookie 

 that they all had a smile like Clementine's. Come 

 to think of it, there are a distressing lot of fat men 

 with that kind of smile to be seen around the hotel 

 lobbies in our big cities just now, but I have made a 

 careful study of the pet pig and shall be on my 

 guard. 



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