Chapter 20 THE LUCKY MONTH

"Know thyself," said the old Greek motto. (In Greek-but this is an English book.) So I bought a little red volume called, tersely enough, Were you born in January? I was; and, reassured on this point, the author told me all about myself.

For the most part he told me nothing new. "You are," he said in effect, "good-tempered, courageous, ambitious