We two, then, are prepared to testify that the porcupine in its
moments of relaxation occasionally contracts itself into what might be
taken for a ball by persons not too difficult to please in the matter
of spheres. But neither Buster nor I--being unwilling to get into
trouble--would like to assert that it is an actual ball. That it is a
shape with which one had better not thoughtlessly meddle is a conviction
that my friend Buster stands ready to defend against all comers.
WORDSWORTH'S characterization of the woman in one of his poems as "a
creature not too bright or good for human nature's daily food" has
always appeared to me too cannibalesque to be poetical. It directly sets
one to thinking of the South Sea islanders.
THOUGH Iago was not exactly the kind of person one would select as a
superintendent for a Sunday-school, his advice to young Roderigo was
wisdom itself--"Put money in thy purse." Whoever disparages money
disparages every step in the progress of the human race.
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