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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 6, 1922 
gain their share of the bones of life. 
You may, if you like, smile at this 
childish story, and say that I waste and 
misuse my talents. Why do 1 not quote 
statistics and economics instead of talk¬ 
ing about boys and dogs? You may say 
I am like the man in the parable who 
hid his talent in the earth. But that is 
where n farmer may well plant, the best 
he has in the hope that it may sprout and 
grow. In its larger application to mod¬ 
ern life this little story points the way, 
like the finger of a child pointing the way 
to happiness—a way which too many 
older people lmv» forgotten. 
the only friend you had in your hour of 
trial—your dog! Thus you men will 
realize how those boys felt as they looked 
up the road and saw little Gyp sitting in 
the road looking at them. 
"Come on. Gj //>.'" they called. There 
was a struggle between beautiful love and 
hideous fear in that little heart. Love 
won, and the little brown dog came run¬ 
ning and frisking to them. They all 
walked on together. Perhaps they could 
get a woodchuck down in the pasture. 
Suddenly the dog pointed up his little 
nose and scouted the air. Then he barked 
and danced and ran to the church, with 
the boys after him. He headed straight 
for the church shed, where Deacon Drake 
had put those bones. The door had been 
locked, and there was a grating at the 
window. Looking through it. the boys 
could see their precious bones in one cor¬ 
ner. They seemed miles away when those 
boys reflected that the only way to obtain 
them was to make use of some power 
“higher than human." 
And Gyp found it for them. Whining 
and barking in his eagerness to help, he 
found a place under the sill where n rut 
had started a hole. He pawed and tore 
at the soft earth until he made his way 
in, aDd in a moment crawled back with a 
bone in his mouth. And Gvn kept that 
up all through the long afternoon. Wag¬ 
ging his tail and harking for joy as the 
hoys petted and encouraged him, the littie 
dog showed his love for his friends. One 
of those hoys possessed that rare faculty 
of holding intelligent, communication with 
dumb animals. I never could understand 
how they do it. Very likely it is some 
special inheritance from some far-off an¬ 
cestor in the days when, apparently, hu¬ 
mans and brutes had much the same lan¬ 
guage. At any rate, there are people who 
can make dogs and horses—the brutes 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
thought out that scheme of throwing the 
responsibility upon the. buyer made a 
fortune in Wall Street later on. lie was 
voted too smart to remain a farmer. But 
the storekeeper wanted no contest, with 
Deacon Drake. "No, hoys."’ be said, “1 
can't, do it. Your assets are not liquid 
euougb. The trouble with farm security 
is that it. ain’t liquid. You can't move it. 
It's frozen." When you come to think of 
it, every "master of finance,” local or 
national, has ever taken that same view 
of farm security. "It ain't liquid." 
Then there was fhe minister. lie gave 
them a few texts, like “Children should he 
seen and not heard": but he had little to 
say about those bones. They hunted 
in rough the concordance and found this: 
"His bones are full of the sin of his youth, 
and shall lie down with him in the dust!” 
No one would undertake the job of oppos¬ 
ing Deacon Drake except Miss Bisbee, the 
s .unstress, and what did she amount to? 
She had neither husband, nor property, 
nor vote. All she had was a tongue, and 
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man needs of boy life. What could these 
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