CHAPTER XXVI.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one! keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
After visits to Maryborough and some other Australian towns, we presently took passage for New Zealand.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is; for he is as I was; he thinks he knows.

And he thinks he knows where Hertzegovina is; and how to pronounce pariah; and how to use the word unique without exposing himself to the derision of the dictionary.

But in truth, he knows none of these things.

There are but four or five people in the world who possess this knowledge, and these make their living out of it.