[The Innocents Abroad Part 3 of 6 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Innocents Abroad Part 3 of 6 CHAPTER XXV 16/23
They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes.
They work two or three hours at a time, but not hard, and then they knock off and catch flies. This does not require any talent, because they only have to grab--if they do not get the one they are after, they get another.
It is all the same to them.
They have no partialities.
Whichever one they get is the one they want. They have other kinds of insects, but it does not make them arrogant. They are very quiet, unpretending people.
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