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nest ; he is too lazy. He looks around and 

 drops his egg into a Hedge Sparrow or 

 Lark's nest, where he finds the process of 

 incubation about to commence, and leaves the 

 rest to chance. He has no maternal instincts. 

 Do we not find many of the same in the 

 human race? lazy, indolent creatures who have 

 all their lives got everything done for them. 



A friend of mine, who was in the happy 

 position of not having to work, while enjoying 

 a sojourn with an industrious, hard-working 

 man who possessed a fruit farm, accosted him 

 one day while he was picking strawberries 

 with the abrupt observation 



"The hand of the diligent maketh rich, Johrk" 



"Gad, I dinna ken aboot that," replied John; 

 " I see fouks gaen aboot daein' naething that 

 are a hantle richer than me." 



"What," exclaimed my friend, "you do not 

 believe the Bible? You do not believe what 

 Solomon says ? " 



" I dinna ken aboot that, but I ken this : I 



