In Winter Quarters 



to think out loud on some such secretly 

 cherished subject, and if he be just 

 honest, frank and fearless in telling 

 the truth, even at the risk of being 

 called a "crank" or a sentimentalist, 

 he will contribute something to the 

 library that will be found genuine 

 some day, and may be helpful through 

 all the generations. Horace has been 

 dead near two thousand years, and 

 the prophets longer than that, but 

 they still walk up and down the world 

 clad in immortality. There were prize- 

 fighters and money-changers also in 

 their time. I don't happen to remem- 

 ber any of their names, however. Do 

 you? 



Many months-of-moons ago the boy 

 who had made the big O wildcats in 

 his books became part of an office 

 equipment. The other furniture in 

 the little room consisted of a chair, a 

 desk, many books and a hoe now trans- 

 formed into a lead pencil. It was just 

 a case of plain, everyday grinding, and 

 [146] 



