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Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer
It was good advice that Rudyard Kipling gave his "young British soldier" in regard to the latter's rifle: Tommy Atkins' rifle was by no means the first inanimate or dumb thing to prove human and to deserve human treatment. Animals of all sorts have been given this quality. Jack London's dog, in The Call of the Wild, has human interest. So has the immortal Black Beauty. But we are not concerned with animals now. Kipling's ocean liner has human interesta soul. I need not tell you that a boat is human. Its every erratic quality of crankiness, its veritable heroism under stress, its temperament (if you like that word) makes it very human indeed. That is why a man will often let his boat rot rather than sell it.viii This is not true of all inanimate things. It depends. I have never heard of a steam roller or a poison gas bomb being beloved by anybody. I should not care to associate with a hand grenade. It is a matter of taste; I dare say I could learn to love a British tank, but I could never make a friend and confidante of a balloon. An aeroplane might prove a good palwe shall have to see. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 19495
Author: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Release Date: Oct 8, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Owen, Robert Emmett, 1878-1957
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