The Man Had Got His
Joke - The One Joke Of His Life Perhaps - And Was Determined To Stick To
It, And That Kept Him Faithful To You In Spite Of His Wife's Wish To
Distribute Their Orders Among A Lot Of Travellers."
He replied that I was perhaps right and that it had turned out a lucky
fish for him.
But his old customer, though his business was big, was
not so important to him now when he had big customers in most of the
large towns in England, and he thought it rather ridiculous to keep up
that joke so many years.
XXX
STRANGERS YET
The man who composed that familiar delightful rhyme about blue eyes and
black, and how you are to beware of the hidden knife in the one case
and of a different sort of danger which may threaten you in the other,
must have lived a good long time ago, or else be a very old man. Oh, so
old, thousands of years, thousands of years, if all were told. And he,
when he exhibited such impartiality, must have had other-coloured eyes
himself. Most probably the sheep and goat eye, one which no person in
his senses - except an anthropologist - can classify as either dark or
light. It is that marmalade yellow, excessively rare in this country,
but not very uncommon in persons of Spanish race. For who at this day,
this age, after the mixing together of the hostile races has been going
on these twenty centuries or longer, can believe that any inherited or
instinctive animosity can still survive?
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