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same view as to early avoirdupois. No young 

 man has any right to be fat. It denotes a lack of 

 will power, laziness, over-eating, self indulgence, 

 and some more things that I will think of later. 

 This creature was not only shamefully sebacious, 

 l5''mphatic, a perfect jellyfish in form, but he had 

 a slack jaw, a pendulous under lip. His eyes 

 watered, he was unshaven, his trousers bagged, 

 and, above all, he was loquacious. Talkative? 

 That critter had inherited all the original seven 

 baskets of talk, that Eve found under the Tree, and 

 had them yet. No one is allowed to carry a gun 

 up there, and I hated to kill him with my bare 

 hands, because it would have mussed up my 

 clothes; so he still lives. Somewhere, he pollutes 

 this fair planet. Somewhere, the thin woman 

 hangs upon his words and everyone else longs to 

 kill him. I hope someone will. 



The lake trip was interesting. A small thunder- 

 storm pursued us a long way, but finally gave it up. 

 We saw an osprey fishing; saw him make his catch 

 and bear it away to his nest. We saw the big 

 pelicans that, in that rarefied air, look like a ship 

 in the distance. 



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