, a league for mutual defence, and you would suppose that they would not go a-huckleberrying without a medicine chest. The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. Finally, there were the self-styled reformers, the greatest bores of all, who thought that I was forever singing⁠—

This is the house that I built;

This is the man that lives in the house that I built;

This is the house that I built; This is the man that lives in the house that I built;

but they did not know that the third line was,