A number of jackasses were sent to pasture in a meadow that was all green grass and dandelions and buttercups and daisies. At the far end of the meadow was a large billboard upon which was pasted the flaming lithograph of a moving-picture actor standing on his head on the top of an upright piano. The jackasses, immediately they entered the meadow, made a bee-line for billboard and began omnivorously to pasture off the lithograph.
XV
THE FUTURE
Time snatched the roses from the girdle of a man's Past and tore her gown of silvered chiffon and brought her thus before him.
"And who is this, pray?" bade the man.
"This," replied Time, "is your Future."