Show HE liE HELD ON TO TIlE THE BALL There was is an un amateur ball bill game am In one of the big Jig cities clUes the other day On one team was an outfielder named Charley Rocks Charley Charle Is a little fellow tellow He Is I only eight years old But young and little Ittle as he Is he knows how bow to play the he game The ball was batted Charleys Charley's way Ills His field was on a river pier there pier there isn't very much room for playing ballIn ball ballin In n Charleys Charley's part of the city city and and the ball jail threatened to go overboard When the fly came Charleys Charley's way ho he 10 thought only of ot the game not of the he danger to himself In following It into the river for he cant can't swim He Jumped into the air and caught the he ball The next thing was was a a abig big splash Charley Chancy was was' In the water with the ball gripped in his his' band hand When they fished him out the ball was still sun there The play counted the batter was out If Charley can hold on on to the ballin ball in fn n later life Ufe as well weIl as he did when he fell Into the river hell he'll be a good citizen Hell He'll hold on When the ball of life Is batted his way he wont won't think of the river he wont won't think of the danger to himself he e wont won't stop to reckon the consequences conse conse- Hell He'll take a chance and when he be p pulls Us himself out put of the river of circumstances he be wont won't bave have to 9 be e fished out then then then-he he will be found f iG j be tie beholding holding on onto to the ball In the big game ame of life an Important I thing Is to hold on to the ball baU Keep your eye on It and grab It when It I J comes towa toward d you I Above nil all hold on to It I Its It's the ball that's caught and held that counts not the one that's juggled so that It finally falls to the ground If you cultivate the habit of ot holding on and dont don't stop to look back at the water into info which you MAY fall faIl you'll be a II valuable man Suppose you do fall In You may drown of course but ut the chances are that the spirit which prompted you to hold on will find a way to get you out When you get out you'll have the ball I And you'll be a hero I |