K. Arvine
$ Sports of Childhood.
PORTING through the forest wide; Playing by the water side; Wandering o'er the heathy fells; Down within the woodland dells; All among the mountains wild, vanity. Do not begin your life feeling that such a fine fellow as you are-one so spruce, so handsome, so well-dressed, so accomplished in various waysdeserves a high place. Do not flatter yourself that life owes you any more than it owes anybody else.
It owes you, in common with all others, just as much as, climbing, you can bring down. It owes you a chance to be something. It will give you that, and nothing more. It is better for every man to begin with this understanding: I have a chance to carve out my own way. This is all I want. Having that, I will take the consequences.