Free e-text of ""Say Fellows--"" by Wade C. Smith.
"SAY, FELLOWS--"
Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues
by
WADE C. SMITH
Author of "The Little Jetts Telling Bible Stories"
[Illustration]
New York Chicago Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh
1921
Adapted from the Author's weekly Sunday School Lesson Treatments in _The Sunday School Times_, by permission of the Editors.
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_Dedicated to
her whose instruction and example first inspired in me the purposes and ideals which make for patience, courage, endurance and faith--
MY MOTHER_
Introduction
"My teacher told me to write a composition on the last picture I looked at," said Henry, a sixth grader, when he came in from school the other day. "I had seen a picture of a fire engine," he added, "so I wrote:
"'With a clatter of hoofs and a whirr of wheels, the fire engine dashed around the corner. The driver was crouched low in the seat. He was driving like Jehu.'
"But I could not spell Jehu, so I went to my teacher and asked, 'Please, how do you spell Jehu?'
"'Spell what, Henry?'
"'Jehu.'
"'What in the world are you trying to say, boy?'