Along in the first months I knocked around about the Kingdom,making friends and looking at the country, and finally settled downin a pretty likely region, to have a rest before taking anotherstart. I went on making acquaintances and gathering upinformation. I had a good deal of talk with an old bald-headed

Says I, "It's the sensiblest heaven I've heard of yet, Sam, thoughit's about as different from the one I was brought up on as a liveprincess is different from her own wax figger."

novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain'thappiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh. Well,there's plenty of pain and suffering in heaven--consequentlythere's plenty of contrasts, and just no end of happiness."

happiness ain't a THING IN ITSELF--it's only a CONTRAST withsomething that ain't pleasant. That's all it is. There ain't athing you can mention that is happiness in its own self--it's onlyso by contrast with the other thing. And so, as soon as the

"Now that's all reasonable and right," says I. "Plenty of work,and the kind you hanker after; no more pain, no more suffering--""Oh, hold on; there's plenty of pain here--but it don't kill.There's plenty of suffering here, but it don't last. You see,