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

over, and I believe you'll be the first one to take me by the hand and help me up the further slope. And I'll put in the first thousand years or so making you realize that not one pang or yearning you spent on me was wasted. It took a good many years for this prodi­gal son-and all sons are in a measure prod­igal-to come to himself, but I've come, I see it all now. I know that the richest, most priceless 12 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS thing on earth, and the thing least under-stood, is that mighty love and tenderness and craving to help which a father feels toward his boy. For I have a boy of my own. And it is he that makes we want to go back to you, and get down on my knees to you. Up there somewhere in the Silence, hear me, Dad, and believe me. THE MARCH OF THE SHADOWS I WENT to see my friend in the hospital. He had been there a month, with a bad foot. His only locomotion was being lifted from his chair to his bed and back. When I called I found him sitting in the twilight looking out of the west window. "Why in the dark?" I inquired.

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