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not yet shrunken to reasonable dimensions. Come 

 with an open mind and leave your magnifying 

 glass at home ; for I would not have you searching 

 for faults and fly specks. Rather bring your field 

 glass and we will go to one of the thousand hills 

 and take in all the vast stretches of fruitful fields 

 and landscape beauty. Come quickly before I get 

 old and dull and you shall receive the old Spanish 

 settlers' greetings: "All that we have is yours! " 



From Earth's wide circling bounds, 

 From ocean's farthest shore. 

 Come memories ever sweet 

 Of friends I've met of yore. 

 Life still flows smoothly on, 

 The days all pleasant run, 

 As through the Golden Gate 

 I watch the Westering Sun. 



DEDICATION 



And now to whom shall I dedicate this book ? 



I might dedicate it to my children but they know 

 full well that long ago I dedicated myself to them. 

 I would like to dedicate it to Professor Liberty 

 Hyde Bailey, my colleague and successor in office 

 at Cornell, but I fear his generous nature would 

 not be pleased to be singled out from other true 

 and faithful friends. So why not dedicate this 

 simple narrative of a Farm Boy's life to the 



