blithesome, when we found Lucio at home and his friend, Camilo, who, before the closing of school days; invited him to take his vacation at their town and then to their Hacienda.
Lucio and Camilo were school chums, members of a recently graduated High School class.
"Lay those worm-eaten tomes of romance and history, and come with me, and we will gleefully spend our vacation time in the bosom of the fields, and there could you realize real life and be in close touch with human nature," nonchalantly said Camilo, smiling and looking him straight into his eyes as if wishing to convince him.
But meekly replied Lucio after meeting his eyes, and then returning his gaze upon his book again which he was reading:
"Why, confound it, man,—I'd rather remain here in this cell and read and drink of the wisdom of many great minds than linger in the fields uselessly."
"Don't you know that a sleeping dog catches no bone?"
"I do," replied Lucio.
"Then, come!"
Camilo took hold of the book and saw the title—"Sorrows and Happiness." Then he remarked, after giving the book back: "Mine! So you got that old idea—where there is sorrow there is joy. Well—you may be right, your author may be right, but joy is not always for man—the world is cold—nectar is not always in women's lips—it is everywhere—for
