Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: great at the end of the second week as his former reputation for meanness. It all depends upon the way it's done. IF you do not care to wreck your bark on the breakers of divorce, see to it that Love stands at the tiller when you go aboard. "Love suffereth long and is kind." A very pleasant fellow to have at the helm, you must admit. When you go down to the pier at which the little boat is moored, you and she, be sure to it that Love, the dear little fellow, is standing somewhere near, and then do you call him up and say, "I entrust my bark to your keeping. We want to sail as long as the boat lasts and we want you to guide us among pleasant places. If storms come up we do not wish to evade them, only see to it that we weather all gales;and whatever you do, see to it that we do not strike on the rock of divorce." And Love will shake his curly head and say with a merry laugh: "I have acted as helmsman to many a couple, but never yet have I struck on the rock of divorce. Now, over there is a well dressed sailor named Gold. His boat is bigger than this and is furnished better, but if I do say it, he cannot mind helm as well as I, for many and many a couple has he spilled out on either side of the rock of divorce. Are you ready, sir? Shall I cast off? "Cast off, my hearty," say you. "We are in for a long and perhaps an adventurous voyage, but with you and with her on board I'll be bound it will be a happy one." All of which is a pretty little allegory and I made it up out of my own little head. And it's true, every word of it. " T ENCLOSE an interesting clipping that will A appeal especially to you. Let me know what you think of it." And then she doesn't enclose it and the recipient of her letter vainly hunts for it. The non-enclosing habit follows t...