In Winter Quarters 



indulgence of any such foolishness as 

 that! He fairly worshipped each and 

 every individual member of each pack, 

 and attached to the lighting of each one 

 all the importance and seriousness of a 

 really important ceremony. And how 

 disappointed when one of these would 

 only "fizz," not crack! Anyhow, by 

 hook or by crook he managed to do 

 practically without his father's lack of 

 financial support in this fire-cracker 

 and torpedo business, thereby writing 

 for the first time his own Declaration 

 of Independence. Probably the father 

 understood well at the time the lesson 

 being inculcated, even if the boy did 

 not. And his mother likewise took a 

 hand in seeing that the hoe did not 

 rust for lack of use. The lesson as to 

 the necessity for labor as an essential 

 factor in one's daily life was not, by 

 this boy at least, to be forgotten. 



All children who are properly 

 brought up have occasion now and 

 then to resent maternal control. I 

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