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opinions and express them definitely. Such a book as this will 

 help them to imderstand what opinion is worth, perhaps, and how 

 it is formed. 



I should close the study of the last year with emphasis upon the 

 ideal of the brotherhood of men, as given in Whitman's " Calamus." 

 And then let that idea of universal brotherhood work into and 

 through the cosmic ideal as found in a brief review of the great 

 pieces of literature which have been studied. Whitman brings 

 this to one of its greatest expressions. Emerson urges it in "The 

 Whole Soul," and Lorado Taft has put it into stone, in his "Foun- 

 tain of Time." "Time goes we say. Oh no; — alas. Time stays, 

 we go." This is the whole culmination of teaching, to show that 

 time goes on, but we, the transitory things in which thought for 

 a m.oment flows and expresses itself, are soon lost. Our passions, 

 our emotions, our thoughts, these are the lasting things in the 

 universe, and it is to make these immortal that poets have written 

 and musicians have sung and sculptors have worked through the 

 ages. 



The Story Told by Hop High 



Virginia Baker 



Warren, R. I. 



My name is Hop High but I'm not a Chinese child. I'm an 

 American — a little American toad. 



I was bom in a pond last June and a very funny baby I was. 

 I had a tiny head, a tiny tail, no legs, and not much body. You 

 see I wasn't a real frog then. I was only a tadpole. 



In my neck were two wee breathing gills and instead of a mouth 

 I had two little suckers. From these I sent out a sticky fluid with 

 which I glued myself to a big weed growing in the water. 



As soon as I felt strong enough to look about me I saw hundreds 

 of other tadpoles cHnging to weeds and grasses. I noticed that 

 some of them were wiggling their tails, so I beran to wiggle mine. 

 My! how fast I could make it go. 



I clung to my weed a week and then I grew very uneasy. I 

 felt very brave indeed, so I plunged right into the water. Then 

 I discovered why my tail was made to wiggle foi, by wigglingr it, 

 I could paddle anywhere I chose. 



