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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLVII
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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty.

To save three-quarters, count sixty.

To save it all, count sixty-five.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
The Thug said: "How many of you English are passionately devoted to sporting! Your days and months are passed in its excitement.

A tiger, a panther, a buffalo or a hog rouses your utmost energies for its destruction--you even risk your lives in its pursuit.

How much higher game is a Thug's!" That must really be the secret of the rise and development of Thuggee.
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done--these are traits of the human race at large.


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