Peripatetic Meditations 



ceptions, and these prove the rule perhaps, but 

 more effectively demonstrate that all cotild free 

 themselves of the pernicious tendency, if they 

 would. I listened once to a thrilling narration 

 of the upsetting of a boat and what followed, 

 and did not suspect that the narrator was the 

 hero of the story. I learned that later, by acci- 

 dent. 



It may be merciful that those who are lack- 

 ing do not suspect their limitations. He is 

 really a wise man, who, being a fool, knows it, 

 and a brave man, if he freely admits it; other- 

 wise, he is a fool indeed. 



"If this were sound reasoning, all would turn 

 to suicide and the race disappear" — ^is the com- 

 ment of one who is not afar off. 



Again, perhaps ; but if people would stick to 

 facts and not their relation thereto, I still main- 

 tain, the world would be happier. 



Nature loves the number, three. She trini- 

 tates in more ways than one. Morning, noon 

 and night. It rains for three days. It is hot, 

 hotter, hottest in summer and cold, colder, cold- 

 est in winter. The seasons each are three 

 months long and with the wild strawberry, it is 



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