A PARTING SHOT. 



Have yoii with heed perused What I have wiitleii to you ? 



— Co? 2olani4S. 



t~\LUTARCH says: " Recreation is the sweet sauce 

 J^ of labor," a fact of which the American business 

 ■V. nian who usually swallows his labor with no sauce 

 at all, should make a note. 



" What so strong 

 But wanting rest, will also want the might? 

 The Sun that measures heaven all day long, 

 At night doth bait his steeds the ocean waves among."' 



The labors of old Sol, to be sure, are a little out of 

 the line of the business man, but not so much out of it 

 that he can afford to disregard the example or declare 

 that rest and recreation are but snares. 



Delusions mere, inventions of the devil, 



to bamboozle the thrifty and keep up the world's stock of 

 drones. If the devil did invent them I have a much 

 higher opinion of him than tisually obtains, and the 

 proverb is right^ — the old fellow is " not so black as he's 

 painted." 



What I have recited in the foregoing pages comprises 

 but a small portion of the very many pleasant and excit- 

 ing incidents and experiences enjoyed in my tussle with 



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