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Amot nd hit wife settled on n farm In where Homer wai born Croy Homer wai the Brit Croy to 10 to high ichool end eollece In New York be worked on n mifizine wrote a novel and a play a dealer training film and published a for author! whlrh he told at a Visit! to the farm lince the death father and mother showed him how everything wai changing Even Splde hit farm manager now owned a “boneless carriage” He still loved the but would not lettle there ai he place knew hli wife and daughter were too city bred to enjoy the Missouri farm life He was determined however to keep the farm as be had promised profit of hit much CHAPTER XXV On one of these trips I was told that Newt Kennedy was sick and wanted to see me His hands were on the outside of the covers — those great bands that had tamed so many wild mules But now thejoints were knobby and the flesh wasted away between them and his eyes that had twinkled so many times were kunkerr and hollow I sat down beside him deeply affected After a while the paid woman who was waiting on him left the room and he and I were alone toThe years slipped away gether we were back on adjoining farms I but spoke of the captured weasel he had forgotten it But he hadn’t forgotten breaking the mules He laughed— then had to cough — this giant this strongest man In the neighborhood this man who got so much fun out of living this boyhood hero His voice for I stayed weak grew too long living over the old days finally the paid woman came in But Newt still had a message “We bad lots of fun didn't we?” he whispered for his voice was about gone "We did’’ I said It was the last time I ever saw aim But I will remember him all the man fny life — Newt Kennedy Who taught me to have fun Sometimes “What I ask myself are the best ideas I’ve got out of life?" Sometimes I am saddened by how few as I But are they look back I realize that certain ideas have helped me I am a bit shocked At least by how few are religious religious in the accepted sense I think the first helpful idea I had was how deeply absorbed each person is in himself and how important I realize each person is to himself but I did this is almost not discover it for a long time And it it opened up when I did discover It a new world of understanding made me expect less of people and it taught me not to be disappointed when they seemed indifferent or negIt has helped lectful even crueL me in making and keeping friends for when friends have wounded me I have realized it was because they were thinking of themselves and not of me and I have forgiven them and made allowances I’ve learned that the way to understand others is to study myself For I have found that I'm a little of every person I’ve ever known When I am prone to condemn another I try to stop and say “Well if I had been surrounded by the same influences and hedgedabout by the same I would have probably conditions done as he did” I suppose it gets allowdown to the ability to “make ances” And that is what I try to But sometimes I find myself flyor into a situating into a person ion as if I hadn’t learned anything at all It's pretty discouraging how people sufmany I’ve learned fer from an inferiority complex and with I've learned to deal gently them This is especially true on a When people are cold first meeting downor aloof or or indifferent "It’s right inimical I say to myself the old inferiority complex at its He work I must make allowances may be a pretty good person after all” It’s surprising how many are! I've learned that most people dismalaway down inside often feel and inadequate and are ly alone haunted by frustration and the conmuch too world is viction that the And realizing this from for them I try reading my own secret heart to be a little more gentle and a litdo tie more considerate I’ve learned that when two persons meet they at once begin the each process of trying to impress other Each tries to show how imcomes portant he himself is This out in a thousand ways: by sly of how much money he has or how much he has traveled or how important his friends are with a sort of I watch this in others i et pret- knowing smile to mjself busy at the ty soon I catch mjself of trying to unpiess the old game person me passing years to have taught trying change people seems to me are born certain traits and predilections these you can no more change other My the folly of People it with and traits than you can change the length me of their fingers It seems to a perthat you must either accept mm up son for what he is or pass There is no middle ground entirely other 'Ve learned to be tolerant of beliefs and ways people's ideas and to my later SomeUmes of life I've found myself acastonishment once beliefs cepting the very Then I won- thought jvere crackpot der why other people haven't got learned when I’m discour Practical Pinafore for Little Girl aged and at the bottom of the trough I have come to look upon comnot to make decisions at night when plete as unattainable happiness are heavy Happiness as I understand it Is a fatigue and weariness I say to myself then on which upon me sense of present “Well things are pretty black But is a wreath the Christmas e I’U get a good night’s sleep and see belief that some fine bit of good forhow they are in the morning” Thus tune lies just ahead in the morning and with my vitabty I have come to have less snd less at its full I’m able to cope with siturespect for the power in people that ations that the night before had all makes money It seems to me this but done for me is wholly a selfish trait and the least of all the I do not know major drives in exactly when or admirable how I got the following idea but I human beings I realize this takes in a great deal of territory for I do know it has helped me in undera that certain of monknow amount standing people and in getting along with them: And that is every perey is necessary but it seems to me that a life dedicated to son wants to be considered imporis about as emptg s shell as one tant Sometimes I think this one of the deepest cravings planted in a hu- could crawl into I have learned to live today and man being Once I got this idea I could see it working itself out in a not wait till tomorrow During my thousand ways I learned to let the early life I kept thinking to myself other person exert his desire to be “Well I’m not getting much out of (but soon I’ll be in another today considered to supand important or will I made the other city or have more money press my own person the star of the show and be selling more manuscripts or will then talked about him and his desires have a new group of friends and his views and said little about I’ll really get soma fun out of life” my own The effect was almost miWritten Jsm lltlv raculous for no one in the world Sometimes we have to look back can resist the appeal of being the to know it has been one of center of attention It comes to me on a day we But sometimes easily to make the other person the satisfaction hero for his adventures and his know the day is a satisfying one at the very time it is racing by And views interest me tremendously my one of for is the them today today own are an old story third generation of Croys set foot on I have learned to be considerate of this land Carol had arrived from people for life has taught me that the University of Arizona at Tucson most people most of the time are where she had been in school and and carry on their then — on this day — my dream came discouraged shoulders a whole bag of troubles I true We walked across the farm can’t see Along with this I have together— Just she and 1— and I discovered how deeply people want showed her the scenes I knew so And how much good it does well We came to a great gully praise them And so I have learned to "This is where your grandfather and give praise more readily than I did Mr Shannon and I dug a When I ditch with tiling during my younger years spades And it must saw somebody then who deserved be right along here” I said as we I took it as a matter of walked on "that old Dave was bupraise course and said nothing now I am ried" more generous with my approval We stopped in the calf lot "It But it must be honest approval or must have been about here that I I would not be deceitful otherwise taught a calf to drink out of a bucket enough to give it Nor would it be and wrote a ‘piece’ about it” worth receiving Sometimes it goes We went to the “old” house behind straight to my heart to see what the “new” house “This is the house wonders a bit of praise will accomwhere I was born and now I’ll show plish you the very room” Thank God Another lesson I learned Is that one there were no chickens in it “And must not be too sensitive a soul here is the very hole in the floor where the scrubbing water ran In my early days I was constantly receiving rebuffs and arrow pricks— away to mystify me so And here’s the shelf where Hostetter's Almanac some imagined some deliberate used to hang" But as the years went by I disI covered that to live successfully It was a strange world to her But she had heard me talk of all this a must learn not to be so easily I did learn it and now thousand times and now she seemed wounded arrows glance off that used to draw to understand what it meant to me and what it meant to have her on blood r soil Where btr grandmother In the Another is the matter of fear picked up buffalo chips my younger days I suffered greatly Then into the “new” house where from fear Mostly it was fear of showed her the room where I had I the with I could unknown the cope off my first stones and the troubles that were upon me but was pecked the panel had hung and about those that might wall where apprehensive where we had packed the telescope One day I came upon a quocome with the mouse hole Then Into tation at the bottom of a newspaper room ’Renzo’s Thank goodness column a “filler” It was from EmIs no seed corn in It today erson: “Do the thing you fear to there At last the morningwas over and do and the death of fear is cerdinner was over and we went out tain” I must have seen the quotaand sat on the porch where my tion before but if I had it had made Or my mind mother had said "That’s where your on me no impression and I came driving across the father wasn’t ripe for it Now in a kind of on our honeymoon” blinding flash I realized the truth of prairies looked across the cornlands Carol And I began to try those few words “Was this ever the to put it into practice I have not Incredulously prairies?” eliminated all feaf but that one simIt was” I answered In “I’ll say ple idea has been of great help her own vernacular Sometimes I forget all about it We went to the barn which had usually when Hungs are going well Behind the word by word When I find myself in trouble and built was a horse and on a peg harassed by fear and misgivings I manger the horse was a saddle Her remember my Emerson quotation behindwere immediately upon them and am usually able to decide on a eyes and her eyes danced And so did course of action instead of worrying her voice "Oh Daddy can I go I about what is going to happen horseback riding?” think I can say that Emerson's quoIt just about floored me tation has helped me more than any THE END other precept in all my hfe A Bell Jir John Hersetj (Vj The American major in charge of affairs in an occupied town in Italy was questioning some of the citizens of Adano “What doe this town need most?” he asked one “Much to eat" replied the Italian 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