3.
tST suppose now that
you should become
suddenly seized and
possessed of an in
spiration-a heaven
ly hunch, let us call
it--and that-follow*
ing the directions of
the "unseen voice,"
you should go out
into the back lot,
grab a spade, thrust
it into the placid bosom of Mother
Earth and turn up a barrel of gold
a million dollars or so-what would
you do? Would you begin extensive
financial operations? Would you
grope for additional inspiration?
Would you invest in more spades,
more back lots and go on digging? Or
would you be content with your mil
lion or so and buy a house and a
yacht and some silk pajamas and
shirts with monograms embroidered
on the sleeves? In short, would you
keep on money grubbing and trying
to get more gold or would you quit?
The overwhelming chances are that
you will say you would quit. The del.
uging probabilities are that, when the F
time came you would try to get just 4.t
"one million more." The end of the
rainbow which marks the nesting
place of the fabled pot of gold is always in
sight but never quite in reach. Slightly edit
ing and revising the biblical dictum! "To him
who hath" is given an insatiable appetite for
mor.
