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Show NEW LIGHT ON OLD PSOVERB Showing That the Early Clrd Is Not Always the One That Gets the Most Worms. Once thero wero two birds. One was an early bird, and the other was a lazy sort of bird which never got out much beforo eight o'clock In tho , morning ' Tho early bird caught a worm The ! early proverb-maker happened to be thero at tho time, and made a note 'of It Now this worm that had been caught by this early bird had a wlfo and ten children When the worm left homo that morning his ten chit- dron were Just getting up nnd hlB wife I was preparing breakfast. I No doubt this worm had gono out for his morning walk to work up an appetite for brakfaBt but Buch are tho uncertainties of lift he never returned re-turned The family of worms waited until about eight o'clock, and then, highly alarmed, started out to look for Papa Worm. At UiIb time tho bird that was a lazy sort of bird was Just getting out to look for a blto of something to eat Ho saw tho family of worms and had a flno breakfast. Moral: It's not always tho bird that gcta Into the proverb that gots the most worms Llpplncott's. |