An ambitious man who unfortunately lacks ability himself has to wait too long for vicarious recognition.

The objection is like that incident to the making of a country seat out of a treeless plain by planting the same with saplings.

About the time the trees begin to be worth having the proprietary landscape-gardener dies of old age.

However, as custom permits a Far Oriental no ancestral growth of timber, he is obliged to lay the seeds of his own family trees.

Natural offspring are on the whole easier to get, and more satisfactory when got.