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The Writing Of Solid, Instructive Stuff Fortified By Facts And Figures Is Easy Enough. There Is No Trouble In Writing A Scientific Treatise On The Folk-lore Of Central China, Or A Statistical Enquiry Into The Declining Population Of Prince Edward Island. But To Write Something Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

In Canada We Have Enough To Do Keeping Up With Two Spoken Languages ... So We Just Go Right Ahead And Use English For Literature, Scotch For Sermons, And American For Conversation.

With The Great Detective, To Think Was To Act, And To Act Was To Think. Frequently He Could Do Both Together.

It May Be Those Who Do Most, Dream Most.

It Takes A Good Deal Of Physical Courage To Ride A Horse. This, However, I Have. I Get It At About Forty Cents A Flask, And Take It As Required.