IO2 The Book of Bugs. 



like a boiling pot ' with them. Thomas a Becket was 

 Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor of England. 

 He put on more style that the king himself, and yet the 

 lowest modern tramp would be ashamed to let himself 

 go like that. 



Folks and friends, let me tell you something. The 

 past is only good to mark how far we have got above it. 

 It isn't our ancestors we should be proud of, but our 

 posterity. True, we can tell from whom we are descended 

 and their noble deeds, and we cannot tell what illustrious 

 men and women of coming ages shall be the fruit of our 

 loins, but we can do the best \ve can to see to it that at 

 least our immediate descendants are clean and whole- 

 some, right-minded and right-bodied children. 



P. S. This has been a terrible chapter .to me, and I am 

 glad I got through it as well as I did. 



