OF two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though
dull, industrious¹.  They set out for the goal of fame with equal
opportunities.  Before they died the brilliant one was detected in
seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of
fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the Bureau of
Statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of
tabulated² information relating to the domestic hog³.

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