We can almost hear his fond mother shout, "Keep away from the brook, darling, you might get your feet wet and _catch your death of a cold_." Another well known and highly respected admonition belonging to childhood's hour is, "Come in, deary, it's getting dark--Bogie man will get you if you don't watch out." [Illustration: _Bungalowing in California_] Some years later when little son runs breathless into the home portal after being chased from school by some "turrible" boys we can hear this same little mother as she storms about the place and tells what "papa must do" about the matter.

According to her notion, if teachers could not control the "criminal element" among their pupils then it was high time for the police to step in.

Never a word about little son taking his own part! Father listens in silence and half formulates the notion of going direct to the parents and laying down the law, while little son listens in fear and trembling in anticipation of what is coming to him if father carries out his threat.
Tall oaks from little acorns grow--_if the twig is not bent in the sprouting_.
Little son is bound to grow into manhood some day and when he arrives he must have one particular attribute--_courage_.

Somehow he will get along if he has that.

He may also wear a "clubfoot" or a "hunch back," but with courage as a running mate he will assume his responsibilities and become a force in the world.
Once a great orator sat upon a rostrum listening to a speech by a man who cautioned his countrymen against taking steps to defend the national honor.