Part 33 (1/2)

_Friday_ What difference does that ame?

_Robinson_ Theory! It will not be the product of our labor

_Friday_ Yes, it will, since ill have to give vegetables to get it

_Robinson_ Then what shall we aives theetables, which take us but three hours Thus three hours remain at our disposal

_Robinson_ Say rather that they are taken from our activity There is our loss _Labor is wealth_, and if we lose a fourth of our time we are one-fourth poorer

_Friday_ Friend, you etables and three free hours to boot ress, or there is none in the world

_Robinson_ Mere generalities What e do with these three hours?

_Friday_ We will do _so else_

_Robinson_ Ah, now I have you You can specify nothing It is very easy to say _so else_

_Friday_ We will fish We will adorn our houses We will read the Bible

_Robinson_ Utopia! Is it certain that ill do this rather than that?

_Friday_ Well, if we have no wants, ill rest Is rest nothing?

_Robinson_ When one rests one dies of hunger

_Friday_ Friend, you are in a vicious circle I speak of a rest which diet that by er, nine hours of labor will give us as much food as twelve now do

_Robinson_ It is easy to see that you were not reared in Europe

Perhaps you have never read the _Moniteur Industriel_? It would have taught you this: ”All ti is not the i which we consume counts, if it is not the product of our labor Do you wish to knohether you are rich?

Do not look at your comforts, but at your trouble” This is what the _Moniteur Industriel_ would have taught you I, who a

_Friday_ What a strange perversion of ideas But--

_Robinson_ No _buts_ Besides, there are political reasons for rejecting the interested offers of this perfidious stranger

_Friday_ Political reasons!

_Robinson_ Yes In the first place he e

_Friday_ So much the better, since they are for ours also