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JOHNNY BLOSSOM FIGHTING 25
him! Now they’ll know I am the strongest.
I’d rather be strong than anything else.,,
Again it was very still.
"You say that, do you, John? Yon think
that to be strong is the greatest thing ? Possibly
it was, in past ages; but in the future, the man
with the most love in his heart, the best man,
will be the greatest. Remember that, little
John Blossom."
The boy looked at his uncle in astonishment.
The man with the most love in his heart the
best man ? He the greatest of all ?
" Yes," continued Uncle Isaac. " He who heals
instead of wounds, he who does good and helps
the needy, he is the greatest, John Blossom."
Heals and not wounds; does good; helps the
needy. Johnny sat staring at his Uncle Isaac.
Deep within his heart there lay a weight, a
sadness. It was the thought of Tellef Olsen’s
fishing rod that he had broken to smithereens
— Tellef’s, who had to go fishing every day or
his mother and the children would have nothing
to eat; and of the jacket all split, too, — the
only one Tellef had.
Uncle Isaac was gazing far away, up toward
the sky. "That is being great; the greatest
any one in the world can be."
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