We have plants here that yield a milky juice when the stalks are broken or cut, but you must not be beguiled into drinking any of these milky saps, for they are very disagreeable in taste, being sharp and bitter; and many of them are poisonous.
THE JOLLY CABORDMEN.
There was once a nation of remarkably genial people who knew no evil and would not have practiced it if they had known it. They were very industrious, and their days were so busy and they took such an interest in their work, that they had no time to be wicked or sad.
They were called Cabordmen, for what reason I know not, for the name of their country was not Cabord. Their principal industry was tilling the soil, and they generally worked with a will.
THE JOLLY CABORDMEN AT WORK.
When they first settled their country the land was poor and very little grew upon it that was worth having. But, year by year, the soil became richer, on account of the care they took of it, and all sorts of valuable grains, and grasses, and vegetables, and fruits were grown, and these Cabordmen had all and more than they wanted of the good things of the earth.
So they waxed rich and happy, and there never was a time when a man was hungry that he did not have some good things to eat, and it very seldom happened that any of these hard workers found himself without an appetite at meal-time.
For people who work hard and well are very apt to have all they want and to want all they have. If they do not want it to use themselves, they want it to sell or give away.
So, in time the people of this country became not only very comfortable but very wealthy.