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 understand! Unproven statements camouflage as sense. Unchallenged assertions carry specious conviction with them. Untried advisers are accepted at their own valuation. They look sound—but a close inspection would show the rottenness."

He came slowly up the short, steep bluff that shuts off the Green Carpet dell to the north, turning again to his right to strike into the Pulpit Rock trail toward the Four Spots, meaning to wander on towards Inspiration Rock. As he came out into the open above tree-line, he dropped down for a moment on a rock overlooking the serenity of the Peterboro' Hills. He paused to eat blueberries. The route of everybody is punctuated by blueberries but they never interrupt one's meditations with their gustatory appeal. The thoughts of the climber meandered on disjointedly.

"How often men say in some misadventure, 'I trusted to so and so for I supposed he knew.' Why did they suppose so without testing? One good look might have told