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228 "What will you give me if I restore your sight?" asked the quack.

"I will see," replied the blind man.

Korean proverbs indicate mentality of no mean order. "The blind man stole his own hen and ate it" is terse and ironical. "Even the hedgehog says her young are smooth," is the equivalent of the English, "The crow thinks her own child the fairest." Insincerity is epitomized by "Honey on the lips, but a sword in the heart." "When there are no tigers, wild cats are self-important," and "You cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face," are sound doctrine in any language.

In an address before some ministers in Boston, President Eliot of Harvard said he was opposed to anything that stands for finality in religion. He said the general trend of belief was that truth cannot be fixed, and if in the range of science and philosophy it was thought the end had not been reached why should the theologian imagine he has reached the end of theology?

A traveler passing through a small country town noticed a post on which was marked the height to which the river had risen during a recent flood.

"Do you mean to say," he asked a native, "that the river rose as high as that in 19—?"

"Oh, no," replied the native; "but the village children used to rub off the original mark, so the mayor ordered it to be put higher up, so as to be out of their reach."