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Day Clarence. The Crow's Nest
The Crow's Nest
Table of Contents
ON AUTHORS
PROBLEMS
PORTRAITS
The Crow's Nest
The Three Tigers
As They Go Riding By
Odd Countries
On Cows
Stroom and Graith
Legs vs. Architects
To Phoebe
Sex, Religion and Business
An Ode to Trade
Objections to Reading
On Authors
The Enjoyment of Gloom
Buffoon Fate
The Wrong Lampman
The Seamy Side of Fabre
In His Baby Blue Ship
Problems
The Man Who Knew Gods
Annual Report of the League for Improving the Lives of the Rich
CASE 102
CASE 176
CASE 190
From Noah to Now
Sic Semper Dissenters
Humpty-Dumpty and Adam
How It Looks to a Fish
A Hopeful Old Bigamist
The Revolt of Capital
Still Reading Away?
Portraits
A Wild Polish Hero and the Reverend Lyman Abbott
Mrs. P's Side of It
The Death of Logan
Portrait of a Lady
Grandfather's Three Lives
Story of a Farmer
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Clarence Day
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I wonder, by the way, why most babies find existence so miserable? Convicts working on roadways, stout ladies in tight shoes and corsets, teachers of the French language—none of these suffering souls wail in public; they don't go around with puckered-up faces, distorted and screaming, and beating the air with clenched fists. Then why babies? You may say it's the nurse; but look at the patients in hospitals. They put up not only with illness, but nurses besides. No, babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears. "You might have got the place ready for us," they would say, only they can't speak the language. "What have you been doing all these thousands of years on this planet? It's messy, it's badly policed, badly laid out and built—"
Yes, Baby. It's dreadful. I don't know why we haven't done better. I said just now that you were unreasonable, but I take it all back. Statesmen complain if their servants fail to keep rooms and kitchens in order, but are statesmen themselves any good at getting the world tidied up? No, we none of us are. We all find it a wearisome business.
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