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THE HIVE
BY WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
The Hive
The Last Ditch
Child and Country
Lot & Company
Red Fleece
Midstream
Down Among Men
Fatherland
NEW YORKGEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
The Hive
BY
WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
AUTHOR OF "MIDSTREAM," "CHILD AND COUNTRY,"
"THE LAST DITCH," "DOWN AMONG MEN," ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO MARY
There is much to say. Many have a part in this story of our days.Their work is on the table. Yet no manuscript, no chapter, is a realbeginning. One must start a book this way—with a fresh sheet in themachine and tell what he is going to tell about.... First of all, ithas to do with the unfolding of the child mind; all the Stonestudy workhas been for that, but the brimming wonder of it all is that we havechiefly been employed unfolding ourselves.
No one can begin upon the sweet and sacred story of life to a childwithout taking a stride nearer into the centre of things, and livingit. That's what all telling is about—presently to stop talking and tocatch up on conduct. The fairest culture of all is to become artists inlife.... Thinking of this, thinking much upon this one thing, we havebeen lured out of the heaviness of work into the dimension of Play. Wetell here about this particular passage.
Also something about the story of Man and Woman, hinting at what iscontained in pages of the Book of Life not opened heretofore for the[8]...