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Show ANIMALS NEVER IN IDLENESS. They Reap Not, Neither Do They Spin, but Are Always Busy. How Is it that birds and beasts manage to pass through life without succumbing to ennui, or at least without with-out being bored nearly to death? aska tho Indian Times. Animals, as a ru'o, do not loaf; It is not thus that they solve tho problem. Loafing is an art which but few living creatures understand. un-derstand. Lizards, crocodiles and chaprassies aro tho greatest authorities authori-ties on tho subject. Animals have acquired ac-quired tho knack of making mud ado about nothing; thoy have learned fo bo very busy without doing anything. any-thing. This accomplishment obviously obvious-ly differs from that of loafing. It Is ono which animals havo brought tc perfection, and of which many human aelngs chiefly women aro very able exponents. There Is overhead a wast busy exploring tho holes in tho trunV of a tree. Why he does this he proh ably does not know; ho has no timo tc stop and think. Ho is quite content to explore away as though his life de ponded upon It. Flvo times within th last six minutes ho has minutely in spected every portion of tho samt hole. All this labor is useless, In s sense. Without it, however, tho wasp would In all probability dio of ennui Tho wnsp Is not an Isolated case Most animals aro exports at frittering away timo; thoy spend much of theli lives In activity doing nothing. Watch a canary In a cage. Ho hops backward back-ward and forward between two porches as though ho was paid by the distance for doing so. Look at a butterfly. but-terfly. Ho leads an aimless existence. Nevertheless ho Is always busy. A boo probably visits twenty times as many flowers in a day as a butterfly; for all that tho butterfly is always on tho move. |