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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеCHAPTER 1
Striped Whales
CHAPTER 2
When the Herring Ran
CHAPTER 3
Growing Up
CHAPTER 4
A Touch of Nostalgia
CHAPTER 5
Sand Dollars
CHAPTER 6
Out in the World
“Get a good man
That can wield a good pen;
Let him advertise for you,
Tho’ it cost you a ten!”
’Twas the Pilgrim’s chosen leader,
Man of valor and of might;
Straight descended from Hugh Standish,
He whom England made a knight.
Kneeling there beside the water
Long he quaffs the laughing rill;
Feels with each refreshing swallow
Strange new life within him thrill.
’Til, all weariness forgotten,
Home he quickly wends his way,
Thinking of the maid Priscilla
And the message sent that day.
For though stout of heart and dauntless,
Ever ready for a foe,
He has proved a craven coward—
Feared to face a woman’s “No. ”
CHAPTER 7
A Boy’s Letters to His Mother
CHAPTER 8
A Momentous Decision
Whatever is, is right they say.
Mayhap the saying’s true,
But when the is has double way
Which is is right to do?
CHAPTER 9
Mug-up and Foghorn
CHAPTER 10
Small but Vital
CHAPTER 11
I Become an Author
CHAPTER 12
On My Own
CHAPTER 13
An Idea Is Born and Sold
CHAPTER 14
A Great Naturalist Becomes a Friend
CHAPTER 15
Happy Jack Does His Bit
CHAPTER 16
On the Air
CHAPTER 17
The Caterpillar Parade
CHAPTER 18
A Precarious Seat
CHAPTER 19
Pickled Snakes and Singing Mice
CHAPTER 20
The Last of His Race
CHAPTER 21
On the Labrador
CHAPTER 22
I Tell a Story
CHAPTER 23
Teaching and Taught
CHAPTER 24
How to Write a Story
CHAPTER 25
Inspiration
CHAPTER 26
Peter Goes to Court
CHAPTER 27
Aunt Sally
CHAPTER 28
“Eyesight Is Mental After All”
God bless the birds and animals. Protect them with thy might
From wintry storms and hunger, and from danger day and night.
Oh heal the little broken wing and ease the racking pain;
Oh heal the little injured foot and make it well again.
Protect the birds and animals from lasting ice and snow;
Teach man to cease his cruelty and tenderness to show.
God bless the birds and animals and comfort to them bring.
I ask it in the name of him who loved each living thing.
CHAPTER 29
Somewhere
CHAPTER 30
The Fullness of Joy
CHAPTER 31
Dead but Living
CHAPTER 32
The Aura of Greatness
CHAPTER 33
Thrills Never Repeat
CHAPTER 34
Always in Debt
Troubles come to one and all,
Be they big or be they small.
When things go bad and life is rough
Advantage lies in being tough.
However hard may fall the rain
The sun is sure to shine again.
On earth below, in Heaven above
The one most precious thing is love.
CHAPTER 35
From My Scrapbooks
Zounds to Europe’s game of Grab-it!
Tell me, first, of Peter Rabbit!
Read me, from my favorite paper,
Jerry Muskrat’s latest caper;
Skip Herr Goebbels’s line of bunk;
Tell me, how is Jimmy Skunk?
Rather than of Russia’s snatch,
News I yearn of the Briar Patch!
Mighty though the Finn’s dismay,
My concern’s for Sammy Jay!
Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy—
They’re the Reds I go for steady.
With open mind go on your way,
And add to knowledge every day.
