In Winter Quarters 



about what all the different animals 

 said and did, but when the story was 

 ended, and the inevitable lesson was 

 to be impressed, his interest rapidly 

 waned. He was not specially con- 

 cerned in those days with the morals 

 drawn by the wise old Greek from these 

 simple tales, but he now understands 

 the story of the Spartan youth, for he 

 has since seen people trying hard to 

 smile when something the world could 

 not see was evidently gnawing out 

 their hearts. He has known some who 

 have failed and fallen in their tracks 

 because they could not free themselves 

 from that which was destroying them; 

 and so has passed the point of pro- 

 nouncing judgments that may be harsh 

 as well as hastily and incorrectly 

 formed. 



The storm tonight is making fairy- 

 land of all the landscape, and inci- 

 dentally working heavy damage to the 

 overloaded branches of the trees and 

 shrubbery. Electric lamps are gleam- 



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