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However little faith we have in the superstitions we share with others – thirteen at a table, the passing of wine at dinner, walking under a ladder, and so on – our own private superstitions, though a source of amusement to our friends, are very real to us

When Atropos who snips the threads of life misses one thread, she cuts another, and we who do not know why one thread is missed and another cut, call it Fate, Kismet, or what we will.

Probably, this is how hunters dream of heaven-
I have told you the story, and while I have been telling it, Robin - the biggest-hearted and the most faithful friend man ever had - has gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds, where I know I shall find him waiting for me.