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

six years of age. He was nicely bundled up in an overcoat and wore a red tam-o'-shanter cap. His little plump legs were sturdily planted apart as he stood in the centre of the aisle. His face was shining, his eyes sparkled, his ruddy cheeks like ripe red apples. He looked up at the man and said: "Hello!" But what he put into that one word! How much good-fellowship, and suppressed fun, and rollicking play, and comradeship, and clear, beautiful, human feeling. 98 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS The man stopped, looked down at the small mite before him, and quickly a change passed over his features. The brute fled a spirit came. His ugliness dropped from him as a garment. His eyes softened. He smiled. He leaned back against the door jamb and said, and his voice was full of the tenderest fatherhood: "Hello yourself, you God-blessed, beauti­ful angel child!" The child laughed. And the conductor laughed. Men looked up and smiled. Every woman awoke to vivid interest and wanted to hug the child. The car started. The man found a seat. The little boy went back and stood by his mother.

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