Published October, 1922
To
MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT
AUTHOR AND RANCHMAN
ONCE MY SCHOLAR
ALWAYS MY FRIEND
PREFACE
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and from the tree of life.