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Show Unsatisfactory Either Way. The late Joaquin Miller once entertained, enter-tained, among the train of pilgrims continually flocking to his Piedmont camp above Oakland, a young woman fortune-teller. Though the young woman was both pretty and persuasive, persua-sive, the poet would not let her tell his fortune. He said gravely, pushing push-ing back his leonine white mane: "No, no! A peep Into the future would undoubtedly un-doubtedly be as unsatisfactory to aU of us as a glance at the past." |