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all the clergymen tell them that the next
world will be a far happier place than this,’

* Y es/ answered the Kneeling Knight ;
( but none of them— not even the clergymen

themselves—are in any hurry to live in it.
You ask the doctors. They’ll tell you how
hard they all try, directly they think they

are near it, to keep out of it.’

‘ That’s very strange,1 said Fairbrass,
‘ It’s very true,' replied the Kneeling
Knight; ‘ and the men who are least

anxious to try the change are the doctors
themselves/

‘ Then I don’t believe people are half as
unhappy in this world as you think they

are/ said Fairbrass. * If they are, why do
they want to stay here ? ,

‘ I ’m quite certain/ said the Knight,
‘ that people are not nearly so unhappy as

they suppose themselves to be, but then, if
you really believe a thing—however ridicu­

lous it may be— it seems to be a fact,1
£ You are wrong, though, in saying/

said Fairbrass—who seemed to think that his