v. 



A Governor's Gift 



IT was not all play for the boys of 

 that community. Like the colts 

 among which they were reared, they 

 were taken in hand early, and made 

 to feel the weight of light harness 

 which with most of us is quite soon 

 enough exchanged for the heavy gear 

 with which real loads have always to 

 be hauled, and this is the story of how 

 one boy's "breaking in" was under- 

 taken. The beginning of it he remem- 

 bers as well as if the words had but 

 yesterday been spoken: 



"Take this, my son, and hoe your 

 way through the world with it." 



The speaker was a distinguished- 

 looking, elderly man; the place a hard- 



