Life's Minor Collisions

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BY FRANCES AND GERTRUDE WARNER
AUTHORS (RESPECTIVELY) OF “ENDICOTT AND I” AND “HOUSE OF DELIGHT”
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1921
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO OUR GRANDMOTHER MARCIA JANE CHANDLER CARPENTER WHO NEVER COLLIDES
Collisions are measured by what they will smash. Potentially, all collisions are major. A slight blow will explode a bomb. But since most of us do not commonly carry dynamite through the busy sections of this life, we can take a good many brisk knocks and still survive.
The collisions, though dealt with in separate chapters by two of us, are seldom between two people alone. They are collisions, mostly minor, between the individual and the group, the individual and circumstances, the individual and the horse he rides on.
All the chapters are for those kindred spirits who try to be easy to live with—and find it difficult.
F. L. W. G. C. W.