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Around The Tea-Table

CHAPTER V
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After a while we vehemently clutch something with both hands, and announce to the world our capture; the blindfold is taken from our eyes, and, amid the shouts of the surrounding spectators, we find we have, after all, caught the wrong thing.

What is that but "blind-man's buff" over again?
You say, "Jenny and Harry, go to bed.

It seems so silly for you to sit there making two parallel lines perpendicular, and two parallel lines horizontal, and filling up the blanks with crosses and o's, and then crying out 'tick-tack-to.'" My dear man, you are doing every day in business just what your children are doing in the nursery.

You find it hard to get things into a line.

You have started out for worldly success.


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