Show of Boys Boyst t 1 I have a profound respect ct for boys Grimy ragged rag ed tousled boys often attract me strangely A boy is a n. man wan in the cocoon you cocoon you do n not t know what it is going to become becomE his his life is big big- with pos pos- He may make or unmake un make kings kinAs change boundary lines between states write books t that will invent characters or machines that will revolutionize the 7 commerce of the world Every Everyman man was waS waS-a. a boy boy It It seems strange but it is i really so Wouldn't tV you like to turn time backward and und see Abraham LinColn Lincoln Lin Lin- coln oln at twelve when he had never Worn worn a pair of ot boots the boots the I the lank lanIt lean hun hungry ry boy hungry for love hun hungry ry for le learning tramping off oft through h the woods for twenty miles to borrow A a book and spelling spelling spelling spell spell- ing it out crouching before the tho glare of the burning logs Then there was that Corsican boy one of or a n. goodly brood who wei weighed he pity fifty pounds when ten years old wb who thin and and j who was pale was wast and had be sent cent perverse x t to sup sup- j perless p dess to bed or 01 locked in a u. dark closet because he wouldn't mind Who would have thought that ho he would have mastered every phase of warfare at twenty-six twenty and when the exchequer of France was in dire conf would say The finances 1 I will them distinctly and vividly I 1 remember a a sq freckled boy who u was as asborn as asborn born in the tho patch and used to pick up coal along the tho railroad tracks in Buffalo A few fow months ago I had a n. motion to make before the court of f appeals in Rochester That boy from the Patch was wast t the e judge who wrote the opinion granting i my petition Be patient with w th the boys You are dealing with soul waits Destiny just around the tho corner Be patient with the Ex I. I boys |