Life — June 16, 1921 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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878 Copyright, 1921, by Otivex Hrerorn, onds. to be equal; no one second is either more or less important, chronologically, than its THE FOX, THE LION, AND THE ASS O’ E on a time it came to pass The Fox, the Lion, and the Ass Agreed to hunt in company. The hunting over—when the three Viewed the result, well satisfied— The Lion bade the Ass divide The spoil. So, wishing to be fair, The Ass gav han equal share. Straightway the Lion, who could see No virtue in equality, Declared the judgment void and ate The Judge. Warned by the Ass’s fate, The Fox exclaimed with ready wit, “The Lion’s share is —all of it!” “ Right!” roared the Lion. “Come now, tell Who taught you to divide so well?” “Tt was,” replied the Fox, “ alas! Our late lamented friend, the Ass!” In a Minute MINUTE is an interval of time made up of sixty smaller intervals or sec- All of these seconds are supposed neighbor. HN i} la a Mistress (excitedly): HELLO! 1s THIS THE BUTCHER? A Mouse! LA Such at least is the theory. In practice it is different There is all the difference in the world between nine and three-fifths and ten sec- onds—as Mr. Paddock of California or WELL, DON’T SEND THE CAT'S MEAT I ORDERED THIS MORNING, THE DEAR THING'S CAUGHT The Herford Aesop ‘ - /, THE OX AND THE FROG AN Ox, not heeding, as he chewed His midday cud, stepped on a brood Of little Frogs, and all were crushed Save one, who, panic-stricken, rushed To tell his mother how there came A great huge beast with eyes like flame And cloven feet, and crushed to death Her children. As he paused for breath, “Was it as big as this?” said she, Puffing herself out monstrously ; “Or this? or this?” “Oh, mother, spare Yourself! You might as w A Puffball to the Pyramid, Cried he. “If you don’t have a care You'll burst!” And sure enough she did any other Class A sprinter will tell you Briefly, in those two-fifths of n lies the difference between a wor pion and an also-ran, The difference between the first and the eleventh second is even greater than that, Jus once you step into the prize ring. Meas- ured on the stop watch it would come out | | ¢ ten seconds every time, but measured in | terms of meney, fame, pugilistic tr any other common medium of represents all the difference betwe cess and failure, victory and defea The man who takes the count of ten in s the little affair between Dempscy and Carpentier will know that if he had been a Paddock he might have devoted those same precious seconds to covering ont hundred yards on foot in record time and still have had a fraction of a second to | spare for other uses. A man may doa | | lot of thinking in ten seconds, but he seldom does much of it in the ten allotted to his finish in the squared circle. “VY/HO was that good-looking chap | saw you riding with in the park to day?” LL “That was my wife.” comicbooks.com