Item - The Luckiest Man on Earth

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Good News — v. 13 no. 314 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	Good News, v. 13, no. 314, May 9, 1896 (Issue)
Date:	May 9, 1896
First Sentence:	Although a naval officer must hold himself in readiness to start on twenty-four hours' notice to any part of the world, and must expect to pass at least half his time at sea, and a large part of the other half at various uninteresting places ashore, he pities a man that must go to an office six times a week all the year around, and considers himself, not altogether without reason, the luckiest man on earth.
Last Sentence:	The prudent officer may thus indulge in seeming extravagances that would fairly appall a civilian who chanced to be the recipient of an equal salary.