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"All the high officials of the South Ainericaii Development Company 

 are here now, and we received a royal welcome when we got in, dirty, 

 unbathed for I don't know how long, and without a bit of clean clothing 

 to our backs! We are enjoying the comforts of Portovelo to the utter- 

 most and thank the destiny that has made it our base of operations. 



"We saw a little of the Jivaros and have some good photos. We are 

 bringing back no heads, except our own. 



**The rains will be upon us before we finish up here and with all the 

 time we could ask for at our disposal it would be foolish to work longer 

 in this immediate region until the next dry season." 



The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the ivill. 



Epictetus. 



GRIN AND BEAR IT 



^'estryman: '' Your sermon on thrift made an extraordinary impres- 

 sion on the congregation." 



Clergyman, gratified: "Do you think so?" 



Vestryman: "Oh, yes. I could tell from the collection." 



Sir Gordon Hewart says: "There never was such a war as this." 

 What an unfortunate illusion we have all been under, then! 



A Hebrew visitor to the ^Museum asked an attendant on the third 

 floor: " Aleester, vare iss der Vahl-feesh? " 



The attendant showed him the Sulphurbottom Whale, and re- 

 marked: "You know, it is really an animal." 



"A anemahl? Denn vare iss his foots? " 



Farmer: "So you've had experience, have you?" 

 Xew^NIan: "Yes, sir." 



Farmer: "Well, which side of a cow do you sit on to milk? " 

 New Man: "The outside." 



