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to get away. And so for the future I am to 

 be one of these old boys ! I foresee that in 

 taking my walks abroad one of the objects 

 I shall have to keep steadily in view will be 

 to dodge the " round-bellied Justice." I have 

 a little dog already. 



Now let me revert to the second point I pro- 

 posed to consider, namely, " Shall I shave or 

 shall I not shave for the remainder of my 

 days?" The question naturally arises out of 

 the one I have already decided, about getting 

 up in the morning. If I don't shave of a morn- 

 ing can I, in view of the decision already arrived 

 at, lie abed a quarter of an hour longer? It 

 is a subtle one ; it savours somewhat of sophis- 

 try ; let me think it out : I am bound to con- 

 fess, now I come to think about it, though it 

 had never occurred to me before, I don't much 

 like the operation of shaving. It is tedious 

 now, and, of course, as I grow older and more 

 shaky the more certain shall I be to cut myself 

 now and then, and perhaps some day or other 

 very severely. What then are the advantages 

 of not shaving? In the first place I relieve 

 myself of an irksome task, and I hate being 

 shaved by a barber. When undergoing that 



