American essays -- 20th century; Child development; Children; Education
THE SPERIT
At night the Sperit goes to see God. It gets fresh to make the boddy
fresh every morning. This is what keeps you clean. If you were all
clean, you would not die. You go thru a hard life and what is not
clean is burned off, and then you are pure to go to heaven. You rest
then until you are ready to come and be a saint.
ALONE
The sun beat hard upon the rocks.
I was alone in the Power of the rocks. Nothing was moving.
I was Alone. My Sperit was alone.
It was the loneliest place in the world.
No animal of any kind, not a bird or a snake--alone.
Nature did not even have cells of thought.
The power of the rocks was holden me there.
A thought came over me that I had never known Home.
All of a sudden Nature spoke, and I was free from everything.
I came back to the Father.
EQUALS
There is a greatness in a man that treats his horse like his brother.
A man is a beast when he beats his horse. He is of a lower Brivahen[9]
than the horse. The man who says to his horse that he is his equal, is
a great man, a master of animals.
[9] Vibration.
BEAUTY
When the New Race comes, there will be beauty--real beauty. Down thru
the ages people have talked of beauty, but they have not seen it
really, yet. It will come with the New Race--beauty in everything--in
the body, in writing, in talk, in love. Not love one, but all. The
younerverse Lovers will not only love each other, but they will love
all. This war is the great clean up of the world. After it is all over,
and the troops come all home together, there will be the great New Race
waiting for them with open arms--then all will be real beauty.
THE HOLD UP AND THE GET AWAY
... It was the first time Denver Bill had come in without a cigarette
in his mouth. They wanted to know why he wasn't smoking, but they
didn't ask.
He ordered the same drink and took it fast.... He chucked the chair
over, grabbed the tellfon off the table and gave "Hlo."
He said, "Horse up here in five minutes."
It was there.
He was out of town in a minute more.
Denver Bill stopped at a cabin where he had made ponmets[10] to rob a
train at 7:45, and it was now 6:10. His friend was there. They jumped
on their horses and rode a quarter of a mile. The train whistled around
the curve.
[10] Appointment.
There was a shout. Denver called: "Stop that engine!"
It stopped slow.... Bill murdered the engineer, and then flew thru the
train of cars. He grabbed the fifty pound gold box and jumped thru the
window. A shot rang out.
Bill was pincked.
The man that he had come with played dirt on him because he went off
with the gold. Bill crawled across the field and laid in the hay stack.
He rolled the first cigarette of the day.
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LETTER TO THE ABBOT (from California)
DEAR OLD WIFE:
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