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Show If jou havo business cares; If, perchance, per-chance, jou aro weary and llred of paj lug bills or telling Ilio fellow to comeback ncxtdaj;lf jou are fairly worn out with paper and document and things commercial, gvt away from the vortex and hurry to the llowered binks of a blue, noisy brook. Whcthei the tlsh bite is not material. There's the good warm earth for jour lied and the bending vault of heaven for 'our roof;thc bark of gopherand the song of bird for -our music, ever and alwavs with an accompaniment plajed by the dashing, leaping streams. Close and undisturbed communion with nature Is better at times than many dollars. If the tlsh chance to forget themselves and bite, catch them, to bo sure, but If they disdain -our bait, there's the blue of heaven and the ripple of the hastening current: there's the perfect absence of everj thing-utter and absolute ab-solute oblivion. One may stand behind be-hind the counter or live In the oftlec 3tl da-s In the .v ear and forty jcars to lifetime, perchance, If he be fortunate; he may depart from this vale of tears leaving something for others to light over or revel In, but If he had never sat on the banks of such a brook, and never he.ud the things that can be heuid, or saw the sights that can be seen, his is a sluggard's life. He lived on this earth for a lifetime and never saw the eaith. |