"That's it. Grocery people like it, but you couldn't. You see youwasn't used to it. Well, I wasn't used to being young, and Icouldn't seem to take any interest in it. I was strong, andhandsome, and had curly hair,--yes, and wings, too!--gay wings like

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."

"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,