The Independent . ingled, with akitchen and stone chimney at one end,really a most creditable to do this in a week and a halfrequired steady, persistent work of amost exacting kind. With no stimulusfrom the staff at all, the lads got atit as soon as it was light enough tosee, and kept right on till dark. Therewas no worry about eight-hour days,for it was a group possessing a heredi-tary capacity for work, and they didwork with a persistency and steadinessthat would have startled their mothersand dumbfounded their fathers! It is certain that they took morepride in that job than
The Independent . ingled, with akitchen and stone chimney at one end,really a most creditable to do this in a week and a halfrequired steady, persistent work of amost exacting kind. With no stimulusfrom the staff at all, the lads got atit as soon as it was light enough tosee, and kept right on till dark. Therewas no worry about eight-hour days,for it was a group possessing a heredi-tary capacity for work, and they didwork with a persistency and steadinessthat would have startled their mothersand dumbfounded their fathers! It is certain that they took morepride in that job than they did in anysport or game they had that found, by experience, the lastingpleasure that comes thru purposeful en-deavor. Three boys had the same feel-ing after they built a retaining wall ofsolid masonry, twenty feet long andseven feet high—to save two trees thatwere perilously near a crumbling took more pride in that wall thanin any athletic victory. Organized athletics, to be sure, have. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A LONG, HARD HIKE
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