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"'The youth new-taught of longing, Thecurbed and wan-- The good wife proud at season, And the , Defrauded in delays, Desire not et hiot him! Get what he saws next: "'I drea would bide: Wherefore, to waitaside, Till, first in face of Fortune, And last in h Aduardians!" Dick cried on, his face a fla but unslaked, consu I am I burn But I hold myself Don't think I am a dead one because I a I am alive I am all lusty and husky But I make no mistake I hold myself I don't start out now to blow up on the first lap I aoing to spillto lao Valdez did: "'There walks no wind 'neath heaven Nor wave that shall restore The old careening riot And the clamorous, crowded shore-- The fountain in the desert, The cistern in the waste, The bread we ate in secret, The cup we spilled in haste'

"Listen, guardians! Do you knohat it is to hit your man, to hit him in hot blood--square to the jaw--and drop him cold? I want that And I want to love, and kiss, and risk, and play the lusty, husky fool I want to takeriot, and I want it while I a to have it And in the e, I holdto have the best chance of hts"

"You mean?" queried Mr Crockett

"Sure That's just what I one wild yet, but just watch raduate?"

The rester shook his head

"After I graduate I'raduate courses in the College of Agriculture You see, I'so constructive My father wasn't constructive to a Neither were you fellows You struck a new land in pioneer days, and you picked up rass roots in a virgin placer--"