eighteen hours a day.


IMMORAL:

People are not always such asses as they seem to us.

[Illustration: The Monkey and the Ass.]




The Merchant and the Fool.


A merchant of horses was driving his stock to the market. On the road he
met a venerable old fool, who offered to buy his entire stock.

"It is this way," said the intended purchaser, "I will take your horses
now, and whenever I find use for one, I will send you the money for it."

"Now the gods be lenient to folly!" exclaimed the indignant merchant.
"Man, Man! where in the realm of idiocy did you get your knowledge of
business?"

"I ran a pay-on-publication journal for ten years," said the fool with
asperity.

But the merchant had vanished in a cloud of oaths and dust.