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Following the Equator
Part 7

CHAPTER LXV
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When he is dining, in a great company of friends, he likes to laugh and chat--there a monk reads a holy book aloud during meals, and nobody speaks or laughs.

When a man has a hundred friends about him, evenings, be likes to have a good time and run late--there he and the rest go silently to bed at 8; and in the dark, too; there is but a loose brown robe to discard, there are no night-clothes to put on, a light is not needed.

Man likes to lie abed late there he gets up once or twice in the night to perform some religious office, and gets up finally for the day at two in the morning.
Man likes light work or none at all--there he labors all day in the field, or in the blacksmith shop or the other shops devoted to the mechanical trades, such as shoemaking, saddlery, carpentry, and so on.
Man likes the society of girls and women--there he never has it.

He likes to have his children about him, and pet them and play with them -- there he has none.

He likes billiards--there is no table there.


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