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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

known for this day's duties, let us do what is marked out for us; it is for us in this world to live "by the day," and not "by the job." 96 ONE WORD A LMOST every seat in the street car was taken. Men sat with their noses glued to the newspaper. Women looked boredly out of the window at the cold rain dripping down into the muddy street. The morning was dull. The car moved irritatingly slow. Drabness and grayness everywhere. Everybody looked to be in an excellent state of preparedness to bite every-body else upon the least provocation. The car stopped at a corner. A man clam­bered on with difficulty. He was partly drunk. He had hard work unbottoning his overcoat and fetching a nickel from his trousers pocket. The conductor snapped at him to hurry FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 97 up. The man retorted angrily. They had some unpleasant words, not all of them printable. The man lurched forward to go through the door. He was negotiating his entrance into the car with some pains when some one said one word to him. It was a little boy, about

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