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get what they want. If you desire 

 to get a true understanding of an in- 

 dividual's spiritual constitution, learn 

 how he takes his June holiday. 



Does he know nothing better than 

 some enclosure, with a thousand ways 

 of spending his money for a sensa- 

 tion? Does he think that the corri- 

 dors of a prison, otherwise known as 

 a city, furnish pleasure to the 

 prisoner therein? Or does he seek 

 the place where men are forgotten, 

 and nature is his hostess, bringing 

 out to him the service of a banquet 

 and a minstrelsy? The character of 

 his spirit will be determined by these 

 different June holidays. 



You may always judge the worth 

 of a holiday by its close. Does it 

 taper down to a point, and as dark- 



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