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grow; and, while that growth by a judicious cultivation 

 may be guided and controlled, an honorable faith must be 

 extended to that growth that wills to exist out of sight, as 

 well as that existing in sight, for both are essential to devel- 

 opment. Down in the woods we^find a boy fixing a water- 

 wheel. Adjusted to his satisfaction, he throws himself back 

 upon the sod, and with arms pillowing his head, he looks up 

 through the net-work of green into the blue vault of heaven 

 as though he would pierce it with his gaze and know what 

 was beyond. But, even as he rests thus, the rustle of the 

 leaves, the falling of the water, the dropping of the nut, the 

 chip of the squirrel, is all taken thought of, and their music 

 thrills him as pure symphony the soul of a musician. Now 

 that hoy appreciates nature when found thus, and hi^, father 

 appreciates it when found at the end of a hoe handle. The 

 father "can't see for the life of him where his Jack got so 

 much love of f ol-de-rol." Well, it does not make so very much 

 difference as to where he got it — if by f ol-de-rol is meant 

 his love of sweet music, and vocal music, and chipmunk 

 haunts and water-courses. It was no doubt given him by 

 the Great Father, back of all life, who gave to the rose its 

 fragrance and to the onion its fragrance; and if you have 

 the rose and the onion, you have to take them with their fra- 

 grance; and, if you have Jack at all, we're afraid you'll have 

 to take him as he is with his ear attuned to earth's music 

 your's is closed to, and eyes open to things you behold not. 

 He's yours, as much as his nature's his, and you've both a 

 part of that little item life bestowed on man on long credit, 

 with nothing but his honor for a backing. The question is, 

 what are you going to do about it? 



" But I can't have Jack out there on the grass looking up 

 into the sky and that onion bed running over with weeds." 



Certainly not. Onions were made to be weeded, and boys 

 were made to weed, there's no gainsaying that. But how 

 are the two to be brought alongside? 



There are three ways of accomplishing this. 



First: The yank-and-haul system. But we don't advise 

 this for Jack, for it may in the end swing him further than 



