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tinctly silly. But one finds that this is done of

set purpose. The silliness is to suit and symbolise the kind of life which the story portrays. Go to Florida and live on an orange-plantation, and this is the kind of thing into which you will fall ; this is the kind of non- sense you will talk, the dreary vacuity in which you will spend your time, the mischief which a certain notorious employer of idle moments will find for your hands to do. This view, it is obvious, modifies our notions, and the author of Love in. Idleness becomes, however little she may seem to resemble that character, a high mural teacher.