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I like to try to get to the bot
tom of things. Since we return
ed from our tour of the West, I
have been asking myself, “What
are the reasons — or some of
the reasons — that Americans
are able to be at home with one
another almost
from the time
they meet, as
if they had
been next-
door neighbors
all their lives.
Bowen Car-
son is one of
many cases in
point. He is a cattle rancher,
weatherbeaten and hard-mus
cled, accustomed to the air of
the uplands, and to the huge
sweep of the western sky, land
and mountains. I am a writer; a
prisoner of a typewriter; I am
confined to a desk with an office
wall a few feet from my nose.
Bowen, furthermore, is more
than 20 years older than I am.
Religiously, he is a Presbyterian,
and I am a Catholic. He is a
frontiersman, a pioneer; I am, a
traffic-harried city dweller. And
yet we were on good-friends
terms 15 minutes from the mo
ment when we saw each other
for the first time on Bowen’s
ranch near Cascade, Mont.
WHY? THE SAME question
interested Fred Michelson of St.
Louis, whom we met at Old
Faithful geyser in Yellowstone
National Park. Fred is as much
younger than I as I am younger
than Bowen Carson, and his life
is at least as different from
mine as Bowen’s. He is in the
Air Force, and for him the sky
and the distances are larger
even than Montana’s. But Fred
and I, like Bowen and I, swiftly
became friends.
Fred had been ordered from a
post in the southeast to one in
the far West. In a little foreign
car, he was touring much of the
nation while on furlough. He
talks slowly because he is think
ing deeply; he dredges up words
to express his conclusions. What
was the chief impression he re
ceived during his travels? It was
the same as mine — the friend
liness, neighborliness of Ameri
cans.
PEOPLE ARE open, sincere,”
said Fred, “They tell you about
themselves, and ask you about
yourself. In no time at all, you
know them, and they know
you. I am not quoting him word
for word; but that was the bur-
of what he felt. It was what
I felt too — about Bowen Car-
son, about Fred Michelson, about
dozens of others. But why are
Americans so easily able to be
like that?
There are a lot of reasons. One
is the American climate of free
dom and equality. No bureau
crat interferes with your trav
els. There are no passports, no
borders, no questionnaires. Ob
serve the traffic laws — which
are only for your protection —
and you may go where you
please in this immense nation.
ANOTHER REASON for our
neighborliness is the fact that
neighbors we are, no matter how
widely separated. Bowen Carson
and Fred Michelson and I —
along with 175 million other
Americans — read the same
news every day, see the same
television programs, root for one
or another of the major league
baseball teams, eat the same
kinds of food, and deeply be
lieve in the American doctrine
that all men are created equal
and endowed by their Creator
with inalienable rights.
Another factor, I think, is our
industriousness. Bowen Carson
knew without asking that I
worked for a living; that in my
own way I had known my ups
and downs, my successes and
failures, as had he. And I knew
that Fred Michelson was plan
ning for his life work after his
Army career was completed.
What I mean is this—there is,
by and large, only one class in
America. It is the working class,
and we all belong to it.
I SENSED instantly Bowen
Carson’s unspoken happiness
over what he had accomplished
in 40 years while he developed
his ranch from a 400-acre farm
without an animal on it, into a
7,500-acre spread, sprinkled with
500 or 600 head of cattle. He
was humbly proud, and he had
a right to be. And because I too
have worked hard, I understood.
Bowen and his wife Beulah,
with Bob and Jinnie Broderick
and Mary and I, piled into Bow
en’s auto and rode miles across
his grazing lands, passing 1 cattle
and antelope, and emerging up
on a high rise from which we
could see huge buttes in the
distance, and far behind a moun
tain range piled with snow.
The vista was breathtaking;
but what impressed me more
than the scenery was the
thought of a man and wife com
ing into these gigantic spaces
and conquering them through
years of sheer courage and devo
tion to the job. America is great
beyond description, and it has
made Americans — and Ameri
cans have made it.
Theology
Foi The
Layman
F. J. Sheed
So all men were involved in
the catastrophe of Adam’s sin.
We are all born with natural life
only, without the super-natural
life of sanctifying grace. That
was the chief thing Adam lost
for each of his
descendants.
A certain
p r e cision is
neces sary
here. We
sometimes slip
into thinking
that if he had
not sinned he
would have kept grace and we
could have inherited it from
him. But grace is in the soul;
and we do not inherit our souls,
each soul is a new creation.
Adam’s obedience was the con
dition on which we should all
have come into existence with
grace as well as nature. He dis
obeyed, the condition was not
kept, we are born without sanc
tifying grace.
That is what is meant by be
ing born in original sin, which
is not to be thought of as a stain
on the soul, but as the absence
of that grace without which we
cannot, as we have seen, reach
the goal for which God destined
men. We may be given grace
later but we enter life without
it, with nature only.
And our nature too is not as
Adam’s was before he failed the
condition, but as it was after.
The gift of integrity, guarantee
ing the harmony of man’s na
tural powers, has gone. Each of
our powers seeks its own out
let, each of our needs its own
immediate gratification; we
have not the subordination of
all our powers to reason and of
reason to God which would uni
fy all our striving; every one of
us is a civil war.
At two points principally the
disorder is at its worst, the pas
sions and the imagination.
Passions are good things given
for man’s service; but in our ac
tual state they dominate us as
often as they serve us—more of
ten indeed, unless we make an
effort at control which costs us
appallingly. They were meant
to be instruments which we
should use: instruments should
be in our grip, only too often we
feel as if we were in theirs.
The imagination is a good
Question
Box
(By David Q. Lipfak)
Q. Last issue's question on
the Bible being the soul rule
of faith stemmed, as I recall,
from a religious discussion
which took place between neigh
bors. Frankly, I'm surprised that
the answer did not make some
[reference to the utter futility
of discussing religion with oth
ers. From personal experience
I maintain that such discussions
accomplish nothing, and only
lead to s'erfduiT •'arguments. I
think everyone should stick to
the rule of never discussing reli
gion. Do you agree?
A. As a general rule, the
principal “never to discuss reli
gion” is both unreasonable
and unchristian. And it is fre
quently used as a subterfuge for
indifference, crass ignorance or
spiritual weakness.
THIS PRINCIPAL IS unrea
sonable because natural reason
demands continuing investiga
tion into the relationship be
tween God and ourselves. Nor
mally one of the most practical
and rewarding methods of pur
suing this investigation is by
means of sincere, candid dia
logues. Thus, facts are sifted,
howsoever slowly, from error
and half-truth. Thus, too, parti
cular truths are confirmed in
the mind, their multiple aspects
recognized, and their effects
known.
ADAMANT REFUSAL TO
discuss religion is likewise es
pecially unchristian because of
the obligation, incumbent upon
the faithful, to become Christo
phers—to bring the principles
of the Gospel into the forums
of the world insofar as they
licitly and prudently can. Our
Divine Lord was unquestionably
severe in His criticism of those
who hide the lamp of the Faith
bestowed upon them as a free
gift by God. Catholicism holds
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Jottings...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
bis- . J1E
• WHAT DO nursery rhymes
have to do with outer-space?
A goqd deal, according to a sev
enty-year-old nun who more
than sixty years ago set aside
. “Dolly Dimple Fly Away” and
“Toby Tyler” for tomes on phi-
iisophy and theology. It seems
' that the imaginative writers of
nursery rhyrfte&Vand children’s
stories reached outer- space long
before any erudite scientist with
chart ! Trh d involved measure
ments. Look at Jack in the
Beanstalk, for example, and the
cow that jumped over the moon.
Outer-space then wasn’t such an
unheard of adventure for gen
erations of tousled headed sleepy
youngsters who have climbed
to the heavens with Jack or sail
ed over the moon on the back of
a cow. The literary trafficking
in celestial realm is heavy. Such
tales especially designed to in
terest grown-up children are C.
S. Lewis’ “Out of the Silent
Planet” and Saint Exupery’s
“The Little Prince.” Astrological
heroes such as Leo, the lion,
Draco, the dragon, the three
.bears and the deities such as
Venus, Jupiter and Mars have
been outer-space familiars for
generations.
• IN A SPEECH entitled “The
Sky is Not the Limit,” Sister
Madeleva, whose own poetry
soars high in the celestial realms,
pointed out the literary history
of outer space. She said that
universe places are more plaus
ible for us today than America
was to the people of Columbus’
age. The Church has welcomed
the exploration of space for it
opens new paths in the know
ledge of God who created the
skies and seas and heavens and
planets. It is again evidence of
the power, majesty and might of
the Creator. If only man search
ed for God with the intensity
as that for the secrets of science
and the control of outer-space.
• THE LITTLE PRINCE of
St. Exupery’s classic says:
•“What is essential is invisible to
Ihe eye.”' So it is with many-
things today. We strain a n d.
struggle and the simple [things,’
the '• essential things j |re’;. right
there in our rnihfL A Wlfdie’ plank
ejL a yorld of- bi|tgr ■ space can;
be contained in our minds. This
. is far greater a miracle, than a*
^oc^e^spiFatiS|(*''6ff' tbwtfrd“the
moon. The nun in her speech
reminded that every time we say
“Our Father,” we have trans
cended time and space. Every
time we say “Hail Mary,” we
have moved into immortal and
supernatural areas of human
existence. Every time we recite
a litany, we pass beyond the
boundaries of merely natural
human experience. We who ac
knowledge God as supreme Cre
ator of heaven and earth,
have extra stock in this area of
outer-space. We follow with in
terest the great advances of
science for they reveal the won
ders of Almighty God. Our
minds soar in contemplation be
fore these wonders even as the
writers of nursery rhymes in the
long ago wrote fantasies on the
moon and stars and planets. Yet
we know that not science but
God puts us into orbit and fills
our hearts with that which the
entire world cannot contain!
Mrs. Ira A. Taylor
Atlanta Services
ATLANTA — Funeral serv
ices for Mr. Ira A. Taylor were
held June 30th at the Sacred
Heart Church, Rev. Robert W.
Ripp officiating.
Survivors are Mr. A. J. Fra
zier, Mr. and Mrs. Leon J. Faer-
ber, all of Chattanooga; Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Frazier, Jensen
Beach, Fla.
How Do You Rate
Facts of Faith
By Brian Cronin
1. What is commonly called the “Pope’s chapel”? (a) St.
Peter’s Basilica? (b) St. John Lateran’s? (c) The. Sistine
Chapel? (d) St. Mary Major?
2. What is the color of the stole worn by the priest in ad-
, ministering the sacrament of penance? (a) Purple? (b)
Black? (c) Red? (d) White?
3. On what occasion did the Blessed Virgin speak the Mag
nificat? (a) The Annunciation? (b) The finding of the child
Jesus? (c) The Visitation? (d) The marriage feast of Cana?
4. The Catholic Youth Organization was founded in Chicago
in 1930 by: (a) Father Flanagan? (b) Bishop Shell? (c)
Bishop Sheen? (d) Cardinal Stritch?
5. Which order is responsible for the direction of the Holy
Name Society? (a) The Jesuits? (b) The Franciscans?
(c) The Augustinians? (d) The Dominicans?
6. To whom did Jesus say: “Except a man be born again
he cannot see the Kingdom of God”? (a) Nicodemus? (b)
Pontius Pilate? (c) St. John the Evangelist? (d) St. Joseph
of Arimathea?
7. “Defender of the Faith” was a title conferred by Pope
Leo X on: (a) Mary Tudor? (b) Henry VIII? (c) Napoleon?
(d) Cardinal Newman?
8. After Abel’s death, Eve gave birth to a baby boy named:
(a) Cain? (b) Henoch? (c) Seth? (d) Elias?
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80-Excellent; 70-Very Good; 60-Good; 50-Fair
Answers: 1 (c); 2 (a); 3 (e); 4 (b); 5 (d);
6 (a); 7 (b); 8 (c)
lussion Scientific Equipment In U. S. Schools?
THE BACKDROP
SHARING OUR TREASURE
Bringing Neighbor To Mass
Wins Family
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN. Ph. D.
(University of Noire Dame) —
By Rev. John A. O'Brien, Ph. D.
(University of Noire Dame)
Have you ever invited a friend
or neighbor to Mass or any of
the other services? If not, you
are neglecting an important
means of sharing the Faith.
Such attendance _often serves to
kindle a spark
of interest that
ultimate ly
leads to em
bracing the
Faith. This is
illustrated by
the experience
of Dorothy A.
Groesser o f _____
Whittier, California.
“I had been a member of a
‘High’ Episcopal Church,” re
lated Dorothy. “We considered
it a branch of the Catholic
Church. When Don and I moved
to California, I was shocked to
discover that the local church
bore no resemblance to the
‘Catholic branch,’ of which I
had been a member most of
my life.
“It was like any Protestant
sect except for the use of the
Book of Common Prayer, I
mentioned my plight to my
Catholic neighbors, James and
Anne McManus, and they im
mediately invited me to attend
Mass with them. I did so, and
was so impressed with the rev
erence and beauty of the service
that I went regularly with them.
“They are an exemplary
Catholic family and I could see
how much , their religion meant
to them. I became- convinced
that the Catholic Faith was
His Church, was completely
lacking. There could be no in-
between in dealing with God.
I prayed for guidance and start
ed a novena to the Blessed Vir
gin. Thanks be to God, Don too
had a change of heart and we
both took instructions from Fa
ther Nee. Within two months
we were conditionally baptized,
with the McManuses as spon
sors, and made our First Holy
Communion.
“We are now a happier and
closer family than I had ever
thought possible, Don too is a
devout Catholic and our family
is dedicated to the Sacred Heart,
Father Nee presented us with a
beautiful statue and enthroned
it. a few weeks ago.
“Every day our holy Faith
means more to us. We thank
God for leading us into the One
True Church, and we’ll try to
prove our gratitude by sharing
our precious treasure with many
others.”
Father O’Brien will he grate
ful to readers who know of any
one who has icon two or more
converts if they will send the
names and addresses of such per
sons to him at Notre Dame Uni
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
(By John C. O'Brien)
A foretaste of what lies ahead
if the Soviet Union sets serious
ly to work to carry out its
threat of an economic offensive
against the United States has
recently come to the attention
of Congress.
A senate
committee will
decide in the
next few days
whether to
forbid Ameri
can schools
and colleges
from using
Federal money to buy Russian
scientific equipment. Dozens of
our schools and colleges have
decided that Russian apparatus
for the teaching of the sciences
is the best buy available and
they want to use funds they
may get Under the 1958 Na
tional Education Act to buy it.
GRIST FOR
PROPAGANDA MILL
Domestic manufacturers of
such equipment naturally are
alarmed over the Soviet com
petition and they are pressing
for Federal legislation to keep
it out. They admit that the Rus
sian equipment is the better
buy, but they contend that the
Soviet Union is quoting prices
far below the actual cost of
manufacture in an attempt to
destroy the American scientific
equipment industry.
Protectionist members of Con
gress strongly disapprove of this
“dumping” of Soviet merchan
dise, mainly for the reason that
it offers unfair competition to
American products. But they
also are fearful that to let the
Soviet equipment come into this
country would provide new grist
Ey JOHN C. O’BRIEN
for the Soviet propaganda mill.
Having already convinced
people in a wide area of the
world that Soviet educational
methods are superior to those of
the United States, if they could
become the principal supplier
of scientific equipment for
American schools, the Russians
could go on to say, “See, the
United States even has to come
to us for the equipment it uses
in its schools.”
The uproar over the appear
ance of Soviet laboratory appa
ratus in this country started be
cause of the initiative of the
head of a Massachusetts import
firm who happened to notice
last year what appeared to him
to be well-designed science
teaching equipment in the back
ground of a picture of a Russian
classroom.
The importer inquired of the
Department of Commerce if
there were any rules against
importing such equipment. Upon
being told there were none, the
importer went to Russia to in
vestigate. He found the equip
ment was not only well-made
and of an advanced design but
that it could be bought for one-
twentieth of the cost of com
parable products of American
manufacture.
The importer put in a trial
order for $40,000 worth of micro
scopes, spectrometers and the
like. With scarcely any adver
tising on his part, he received
about 1,200 inquiries and 53
firm orders from American high
schools and colleges.
U. S. MANUFACTURERS
DOZING?
While the domestic scientific
equipment industry complains
that the Russians are selling
below cost in the hope of cap
turing the American market, the
importer contends that this is
not the whole story. He told the
Senate committee that the
American equipment manufac
turers, heretofore secure behind
a tariff wall, had been dozing,
making no effort to improve
their products or reduce prices.
The importer noted that in
1956 the American Association
of Physics Teachers had drafted
a memorandum expressing dis
satisfaction witli the “high cost,
relatively poor quality, lack of
imagination and paucity of new
developments in the current
offerings of apparatus supply
houses in this country.”
The Senators who are spon
soring the legislation to prohibit
schools from using Federal
funds to buy Soviet equipment
say they hold no brief for the
domestic manufacturers, Never
theless, they contend, as Sen.
Kenneth Keating, of New York,
put it, “the Russians have de
liberately cut their prices in
these products in order to flood
our market and our schools with
their equipment, thus seeking to
achieve a major propaganda
and political victory and at the
same time seriously undermine
an important domestic indus
try.”
The “dumping” is a technique
which the Russians, presumably
would extend to other types of
manufacture in an effort to out
do American industry. So,*
whether or not the prohibition
against Soviet scientific equip
ment is passed, the outcry is
certain to trigger a broader
study by Congress of the threat
of the Soviet trade offensive.
Author Of “The Nun’s Story
Say Book Part Fact, Fiction
In Symposium On Controversy
NEW YORK, (NC) — The
author of the controversial “The
Nun’s Story” writes in a Catho
lic magazine that her book is a
combination of facts and fic
tion.
Kathryn Hulme says In the
June 27 issue of America, a na
tional weekly review published
here, that she “strove to render
anonymous” the identity of the
principal character’s religious
community, as well as the com
position of her family.
But, Miss Hulme writes, the
Belgian Congo experiences of
Sister Luke, the main character
are real as was the description
of the formation of the nun.
“I related in my book, as
faithfully as possible, what I had
absorbed about life in a Euro
pean convent a quarter-century
ago from a trusted friend who
experienced it the n,” Miss
Hulme wrote, adding:
“If, in these formative years,
I deliberately left out of my
story certain aspects of life in a
community of women, that was
my writer’s privilege — to edit
out the banal and dwell, as far
as I was able, on what I thought
brave and beautiful in the nun’s
formative period.”
Miss Hulme acknowledges
that “from a few congregations
there came cries that my name
less order was too severe, that it
gave a lopsided idea of real con
vent life.”
But, she continues, “these cri
tics seem to miss two points —
that I was writing exclusively of
one nun and of her response to
her situation and that I was de-
THE STORY LADY
Maureen Wenk Hanigan
THE RUNAWAY BIRD
Once there was a little brown
Cuckoo bird who lived in his
what I; too needed, and hoped- Own neat little brown house, in
to istarl instrifetiohs-. ,<But Don the living room of another big
objSecte% strenuously. I felt that house. The people in the big
a home wilh a religious barrier house didn’t talk to the little
would be harmfd] to oUr child. Cuckoo bird very often, but he
t&D..\ve compromised and went was one of the most important
back to the Epiicopal Church.— memfeeys-of ' hst the
same! He had a special job.
He had to tell everyone what
time it was. In the morning
when he would call coo-coo,
everyone knew that it was time
“I joined with other Anglo-
Catholics who likewise could
not countenance the Protestant
worship and practices of the
local church. We sought to es
tablish a mission church where to get up. And when the" little
we could hear Mass on Sundays boy and girl were eating their
breakfast and the daddy was
reading the paper the little bird
would call coo-coo, coo-coo,
again and then the children
knew they had to hurry to
reach school on time, and their
and holidays and go to confes
sion, where roast beef dinners
would not be served on Friday
nights and the sacrament for
the sick would not be kept in
a desk drawer.
“When the bishop threatened daddy would jump up and hur-
to excommunicate us for ‘trying
to cause a schism,’ most of us
joined a struggling new Anglo-
Catholic mission 20 miles away.
One of our discussions on Bap
tism gave me occasion to tele
phone Father Raymond Nee at
ry for the office, and their mo
ther would start to do the dish
es and hurry to the grocery
store. Everyone knew it was
time to hurry when the Cuckoo
bird called them. Best of all
they loved the little bird to
St. Bruno’s Catholic Church. He tell them it was time for sup-
not only answered my question per, and when they started to
but asked me many more. yawn he would pop out again
“We joked about converting and send them all off to bed.
each other. His parting shot was,
‘You’ll be back;’ I was. The ac-
But one day something hap-
,. „ . r- • i /-a. u • P en ed. The little Cuckoo decid-
tion of the Episcopal Church in ,,
.... ... . , ea that he wasn t very lmport-
South India in uniting with
ant, and he wanted to run away
Protestant sects which did not and be a wi]d bird , If thfi fam _
even believe in Holy Orders or ily wanted to know what time
the Holy Eucharist was a mam- it was they could look at the
festation of spiritual bankruptcy electric clock in the kitchen So
and a betrayal of the historic when everyone was asleep the
faith of the Episcopal Church. little bird popped out of his
I was shocked to think that in house and flew across the liy .
one place it professed one set ing roora and right out the
of doctrines and a different set 0 p en window into the big
in another place. world. He thought he was going
“The mark of unity, which to be much happier than he
Christ said was to distinguish had ever been before.
A NEW BIRD
“Let me see,” he said. “Now
that I have run away I will
have to be something else be
sides a Cuckoo bird — for who
ever heard of a wild Cuckoo?
I know — I’ll be a Woodpecker.
I know just what they do!”
He flew to the nearest tree
and started to peck at the bark.
Just the way he knew a Wood
pecker would. But his bill was
n’t hard enough for him to be a
Woodpecker, and it hurt him
when he tapped the bark. He
decided right away that being
a Woodpecker wasn’t such a
very good idea.
“I’m pretty sure I had better
be something else,” said the lit
tle Cuckoo. Perhaps I can be a
Chickadee. They have a very
pretty song, and I’m sure I’d
like to sing like they do.”
So he stood up as tall as he
could, and opening his little
throat as wide as he could, he
tried to sing a lovely song. Oh,
■ my, it sounded just awful. He
sounded even worse than when
he had a cold in his Cuckoo
clock. He looked all around and
hoped none of the other birds
had heard him. Right then and
there he decided not to be a
Chickadee! But just the same
he would not give up. He had
another fine idea. He would be
a Nuthatch. They can walk
frontwards down a tree, and no
other bird can do that. So down
the tree the little Cuckoo start
ed, and kerplunk, he landed
flat on the ground.
The poor little Cuckoo picked
himself up, and patting down
his tiny feathers, began to feel
just a little sorry for himself.
He decided he would fly by the
window of his old house, and
just take a little peak inside. It
was morning now, and he won
dered how the family was do
ing without him.
HOME AGAIN
When he arrived he could
hardly believe his eyes! No
thing was right. The children
hadn’t gone to school, the mo
ther wasn’t fixing breakfast,
and their ’ daddy Wasn’t even
awake yet.
“Dear me,” thought the Cuc
koo, “it is time to hurry. Every
one will be late. I guess the
electric clock can’t tell them
what time it is because it hasn’t
any little bird living inside.
There is just one thing for me
to do.”
No sooner had he thought,
than he flew right back in the
window and across the living
room to his own little brown
house. Then he opened the
door just as fast as he
could and called COO-COO,
COO-COO, in his biggest voice.
scribing a European order of 25
years ago considerably more rig
orous in discipline then than
now, and certainly different
from many American congrega
tions.”
Miss Hulme’s book, center of
much controversy over its accu
racy as a portrayal of a mission
ary Sister’s life, is based on the
experiences related to her by an
unnamed woman who was in re
ligious life for 17 years, but left
the community.
The author’s comments are
part of a symposium, in Ameri
ca discussing the book and the
movie made from it. Other con
tributors are the film’s director,
three unidentified nuns and the
magazine’s film critic. The
bringing together of such opin
ions — especially those of the
author and of the film director
who brought her work to the
screen — is considered an un
usual editorial accomplishment.
Director Fred Zinneman main
tains the book “opened my eyes
—and the eyes of millions of
people all over the world—to
the enormous vitality and
strength and permanence of re
ligious life.”
He said he hopes his film will
transmit his reaction to the book
which “stated clearly that nuns
are not like other people, (but)
showed how, step by methodical
step, the personalities of young
girls are refined, distilled and
transfigured until they are fin
ally able to strive for boundless
freedom of life liberated from
personal emotions and concerns
«.. Above all, it pointed out the
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Right away, everyone started
to hurry, and he knew that he
had done his job well. He un
derstood too, that he was so im
portant to the family that he
could never go away and leave
his lovely little brown house
again.
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