Their Yesterdays

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By: HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
Author of The Winning Of Barbara Worth etc., etc.
With illustrations by F. GRAHAM COOTES
To Mrs. Elsbery W. Reynolds
In admiration of the splendid motherhood that, in her sons, has contributed such wealth of manhood to the race. And, in her daughter, has given to human-kind such riches of womanhood. With kindest regards, I inscribe this book.
Relay Heights June 8, 1912
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age; Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
AN ESSAY ON MAN — Pope.
There was a man.
And it happened—as such things often so happen—that this man went back into his days that were gone. Again and again and again he went back. Even as every man, even as you and I, so this man went back into his Yesterdays.