The Cuckoo and the Moon

The difference between the Christian and the Mahomedan is only as the

difference between one who will turn his money when he first hears the

cuckoo, but thinks it folly to do so on seeing the new moon, and one who

will turn it religiously at the new moon, but will scout the notion that

he need do so on hearing the cuckoo.

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