Then
the workmen began to grumble once more, and the King again interviewed
them.
"Do you still work twelve hours?" he asked the deputation.
"Certainly, Your Majesty; but we think half would be quite enough,"
returned the spokesman.
"By all means--why not make it three hours?" and again his subjects
were departing, rejoicing, when once more he added, "But I shall
expect just the same output as before."
And he got it, for the men worked harder than ever. And then they
came yet again to him. Once more they considered the hours of labour
excessive. They thought sixty minutes plenty.
"So do I," replied the Monarch, "not only plenty, but too many. But
as it is scarcely worth while employing you only half an hour a day,
I shall make other arrangements."
And from that time forth he brought up his black diamonds from the
centre of the earth by machinery!
* * * * *
NOT "HALF A CHAP."--A well-known Clergyman, who "does nothing by
halves." i.e., Dean HOLE.
* * * * *
[Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST."--NO. 4.
WHEN HE JUST BEGINS TO REALISE WHAT A SUFFERING HE WOULD HAVE SAVED
HIMSELF, IF HE HAD ONLY HAD THE _COURAGE_ TO SAY "_MEDIUM_" INSTEAD OF
"HARD.
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