The Nuptial Flight 
I fancy my good corn-thrower there could 
not understand my tending him without 
any profit to myself. . He was satisfied 
that there must be some underhand 
scheme, and he declined to be my dupe. 
More than one before him, richer or 
poorer, has acted in similar fashion, if not 
worse. It did not occur to him that he 
was lying when he spread those inventions 
abroad; he merely obeyed a confused 
command of the morality he saw about 
him. He yielded unconsciously, against 
his will, as it were, to the all-powerful de- 
sire of the general malevolence. . . . But 
why complete a picture with which all are 
familiar who have spent some years in the 
country? Here we have the second sem- 
blance that some will call the real truth. 
It is the truth of practical life. It un- 
doubtedly is based on the most precise, 
the only, facts that one can observe and 
test.” 
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