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^ CHILD OF NATURE 
which falls to a boy on a farm. 
Whenever his feet could save the 
feet of a man, his feet made the 
journey to the mill or the black- 
smith's forge or the country store ; 
whenever his hands could save a 
man's hands, his hands did the 
work. He was at everybody's beck 
and call ; and he knew no higher 
wisdom than to serve every one as 
he could. Unconsciously he was 
grounding himself in reality at the 
very moment when reality was be- 
ginning to have secondary meanings 
for him. 
His surroundings were plain to the 
point of bareness ; for the farm was 
niggardly in disposition ; the house 
was full of children ; there were so 
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