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THE
ETERNAL MASCULINE
STORIES OF MEN AND BOYS
Jack put the rod into the man’s hand and held the hand carefully for a few trial casts.
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THE
ETERNAL MASCULINE
STORIES OF MEN AND BOYS
BY
MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1913
Copyright, 1913, by Charles Scribner’s Sons
Published October, 1913
In most men worth considering there appears to be, from threeto ninety, an ineradicable boyhood. Give the lad, of six or sixty,a horse or a boat or a holiday, and he forgets the world and beginsplaying.
A list of such men whom one knows would be, happily, an encyclopædia.This book is dedicated to all such, between the linesof the names below. You whom I remember in Kentucky, andYou in the West, and You across the room, smoking, and Youin the crowded city, and You where velvet mountains rim thesky-line—will know that You are in this inscription. So the inscriptiongoes, with many names unnamed, to a splendid phalanxof young Americans, lately boys in years, graduates of Yale,friends of mine:
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