46 What My Critics will Say 



that the man who devoted a large part of his 

 life to such sports as I do, wholly unfits him- 

 self for other kinds of work which I deny. 

 My own work which brings me money happens 

 to be writing articles for which misguided pub- 

 lishers of newspapers pay me. I devote a 

 certain number of hours in the week to writing, 

 nor in my humble opinion, is it the easy writ- 

 ing which is supposed to make such hard read- 

 ing. There is no reason why other people who 

 choose to cut loose from city life, having found 

 its cost greater than its worth, should not em- 

 ploy a certain number of hours every day at the 

 kind of work for which they happen to have a 

 particular bent. I see already that my eldest 

 boy will probably turn his attention to machin- 

 ery, and perhaps become an electrician. It is 

 not absolutely necessary that he should remain 

 in the machine-shop all his life in order to 

 contribute something to the world's stock of 

 machinery. Some of the greatest inventions 

 and most valuable suggestions have been made 

 by men far away from the great centres of 

 life. 



Again, if in our bustling New York we saw 



