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Young Socialists Magazine 1913 July Dec.pdf

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,. .,. TMJiI YOUllQ aoou..t.ll'J'l,l ... Q.&.aor •. _________ ~---thrown entirely on my own resourca,and they could fairly b,t.pronounced rather slender. Yet 1\\'a~ not afraid. That was themost intere;ting part of it all-myfeelings. [remember them perfectly.1 have ohen recanedthem. Rnd have used them' sometimes'in my sermons t.o il1ustratea psychological point. 'When 1was running 1 WI! afraid-horrihly,mi l'erably afraid. Byt as tfAced the liong every particle offcar left me, an(J 1 flashed into anexnlted state of mind and bodythat was. I think. courage in thehighest degree. I did not dreadthe moment of conflict. I waitedit with inten~e eagerness. just aswe-- wait sometimes for the end ofan exciting story. Every oUllceof my body was alertly 'ready. Inc\'er in my tife felt so big and soalive-so entirely confident. rsuppose psychologists would saythat ( wu no longer a man, thatr had dr~J!P~~I 'back into a purelyanimal cOhdition-the conditionof a creature that had had thou­-4anlls of experiences of conflictsthrough myself and my savageancestors. and had always comeoff victorious: Yet with thesepurely animal sensations and im­Iltllses I used my human reasonin pl:mning my courst, 1 knownow. of course, that I hadn'ta ' gho~t of a chance withthe beasts, •. A single mountainlion i" altogether too much forall unarmed man-l hadn't evena penknife-and here were twoferociou! creatures famished bythe long Montana winter! Yet rWR!\ perfectly confident-sure Ishould win in the conDic! ."T.tle... /9!e!1!osJ U2tl ~ !,.a;t:, On hi!'beU,.cra\Y-fil!8' towarfr me an inchat a time. The big muscles onhis haunches knotted themselvesfor the spring. But at what seemedthe "ery best moment there"'N." , a ' trem(,l\doJls whistle that!lJetl,lle( r

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