Identifier: crayoncharactert00gris (find matches)
Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s, is the thrilling word picture ofthe young men who launched their rowboat upon the quiet, smoothwaters of the broad Niagara river a few miles above the mightycataract. (Draw the boat and the young men, completing Fig. 96. Itmight be well to prepare this first scene in advance.) Now, says Mr. Gough, as he enters into the narrative, launchyour bark upon the Niagara river. It is bright and smooth and still;there is a ripple at the bow; the silvery wake you leave behind youadds to your enjoyment. Down the stream you glide; you have youroars, and you think you are prepared for every emergency—and thusyou go on your pleasure excursion, thinking naught of dangers ahead.Some one cries from the bank! Hark! Young men, ahoy! What is it? you ask. The rapids are below you! Ha, ha! We have heard of the rapids below us, you laugh, butwe are not such fools as to get into them. When we find we are goingtoo fast, we will pull for the shore. Young men, ahoy! What is it? The rapids are below you! 154
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166 *Ha, ha! We will laugh and quaff; all things delight us; whatcare we for the future? No man ever saw it. Sufficient unto the dayis the evil thereof. We will enjoy life while we may, and catch pleas-ure as it flies. This is the time for enjoyment. It is time enough tosteer out of danger when we find we are going too swiftly with thestream. YOUNG MEN, AHOY! What is it? The rapids are below you! Now see the water foaming all around you! See how fast you go! Quick! QUICK! Pull for yourvery lives! Pull till the blood starts from your nostrils and the veinsstand like whipcords on your brow! (At this point, quickly detach the drawing from the board, turnit one-fourth around and re-attach with thumb tacks; then add thelines to complete Fig. 97.) Ah, it is too late! Shrieking, cursing, blaspheming, over thefalls you go!—and thousands thus go over every year by the power ofevil habits, declaring, When I find it is hurting me, I will quit. Butthese latter do not go by the water way, but by

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