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COLYMBIA.
allowed. Thus the day is divided into three periods of eight hours each, to wit, eight hours for work, eight hours for play and eight hours for sleep.
As the Colymbians do not require to drink, none of the wages of the labourers are spent on beer; and as food is plentiful and cheap, and as few clothes and no coal or candles are used, the workman has always something to spend on his amusements and has always time to amuse himself.
