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Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

"Michael O'Halloran"


Merely being human, kind and interested in what my men are doing and
enjoying, and helping any one who crosses my path and seems to need me.
Oh, I get such joy, such delicious _joy_ from life."
"If I were undertaking wild-eyed reform, I'd sell my car and walk, and do
settlement work," said Mrs. Minturn scornfully.
Then Leslie surprised all of them. She leaned forward, looked beamingly
into the elder woman's face and cried enthusiastically: "I am positive
you'd be stronger, and much happier if you would! You know there is no
greater fun than going to the end of the car line and then walking miles
into the country, especially now in bloom-time. You see sights no painter
ever transferred even a good imitation of to canvas; you hear music--I
wish every music lover with your trained ear could have spent an hour in
that swamp this morning. You'd soon know where Verdi and Strauss found
some of their loveliest themes, and where Beethoven got the bird notes for
the brook scene of the Pastoral Symphony.


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