The Wren-box Problem Is Becoming More Acute

It's Easy To See The Faults In People, I Know; And It's Harder To See The Good. Especially When The Good Isn't There.

During His Fifteen Years In Italy, Hannibal Never Had Enough Elephants To Suit Him. Most Of The Original Group Succumbed To The Climate, And He Was Always Begging Carthage For More, But The People At Home Were Stingy. They Would Ask If He Thought They Were Made Of Elephants And What Had He Done With The Elephants They Sent Before.

[footnote:] Pliny The Elder Described A Whale Called "balaena Or Whirlpool, Which Is So Long And Broad As To Take Up More In Length And Breadth Than Two Acres Of Ground." This Brings Up Again The Old Question: Are The Classics Doomed? Our Ancestors Believed That Four Years Of This Sort Of Information Would Inevitably Produce A President, Or At Least A Cabinet Member. It Didn't Seem To Work Out That Way.

A Hermit Is Simply A Person To Whom Civilization Has Failed To Adjust Itself.

The Zebra Is Striped All Over So That The Lion Can See Him And Eat Him. Some People Say He Is Striped So That The Lion Can Not See Him. These People Believe That The Stripes Of The Zebra Simulate The Bars Of Sunlight Falling Through The Tall Jungle Grasses And That Therefore The Zebra Is Invisible And That The Earth Is Flat.