. St. Nicholas [serial] . xact or not, the fact is that itwas a fortune big enough to enable Mr. Cant toretire and live in case. But it was haying time, when every handcounts. You have to make your hay while thesun shines, you know; and the sunshine cantlast more n just about so long at a spell. SoDavid went right on with the haying. The for-tune would keep; the hay would nt, unless properly put up, in stack or mow, before theshowers came. David would nt quit till the jobwas done. Now. a chap who can combine dollars andsense like that is apt to be modest, and to dislikehaving people tal
. St. Nicholas [serial] . xact or not, the fact is that itwas a fortune big enough to enable Mr. Cant toretire and live in case. But it was haying time, when every handcounts. You have to make your hay while thesun shines, you know; and the sunshine cantlast more n just about so long at a spell. SoDavid went right on with the haying. The for-tune would keep; the hay would nt, unless properly put up, in stack or mow, before theshowers came. David would nt quit till the jobwas done. Now. a chap who can combine dollars andsense like that is apt to be modest, and to dislikehaving people talk about him and his affairs. But the story is so refreshing, so helpful, that will just have to put up with the publicity,and, as an act of public service, let us get all thegood out of it we can. The best thing about the story is that, whenyou get to thinking it over, you cant help be-lieving that there are still a good many clear-headed Americans who would act, in the samecircumstances, in the same sensible © Underwood & Underwood THE FARM-HAND WHO INHERITED A FORTUNE BUTWOULD N T QUIT HIS JOB UNTIL THE HAY WAS IN OLYMPL\ IN BELGIUM The first Olympic games since the war, held atAntwerp, brought together a wonderful assem-blage of athletes from many nations. If inter-national rivalries could always be of such a pleas-ant nature, there would be a lot less trouble inthis world. The Yankee boys and girls-—for there werecompetitions for women, and we sent a swim-ming team of fourteen girls—performed team standing was very high. No othernation makes such a business of sport as we folks think we go too far with it. Thingssometimes happen that justify such a charge,but they are comparatively few and far between. As a nation we play hard, and go into athletic IQ201 THE VVA1 competition to win. But we are pretty goodsportsmen, and mean to win fairly; and we arepretty good losers, too, when the other fellowproves himself better at the game than we are
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