Seeing Things 



even though you draw with Mark 

 Twain the conclusion that the busy 

 insect's fabled wisdom is a myth. 

 You may watch cats or catbirds by 

 the hour and see something new about 

 their mental processes nearly every 

 minute. And if you know when and 

 where to look for the first trilliurn or 

 the rising of Orion you will have 

 found unselfish friends outside the 

 daily grind that it will pay to cultivate. 

 And there is worse company in this 

 world than that of yellow corn-blades 

 rustling in the late September breeze. 

 Among these other relics of this 

 boy's youth I found an old green- 

 backed Harkness Latin reader, made 

 up mainly of selections in simple classic 

 language from ancient fables. Its pages 

 are nearly all more or less disfigured 

 with all manner of lead pencil nota- 

 tions. The blank leaves that book- 

 binders seem to regard as necessary in 

 the front and back of every volume 

 were apparently greater favorites with 

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