Just have one more try. It's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping on living that's hard.


_Robert W. Service._

From "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone."



[Illustration: ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE]




FRIENDS OF MINE


We like to be hospitable. To what should we be more hospitable than a
glad spirit or a kind impulse?


Good-morning, Brother Sunshine,
Good-morning, Sister Song,
I beg your humble pardon
If you've waited very long.
I thought I heard you rapping,
To shut you out were sin,
My heart is standing open,
Won't you