g--what ye might call playing at a right good game. Could ye
think of some likely pastime, David?"

"Ay, could I; blowing bellows is the grandest frolic ever I came
across." ...

"I doubt 'tis work, David.... I shouldn't like to be trapped into
work. 'Twould scare me when I woke o' nights and thought of it."

"See ye then, Billy"--blowing the bellows gently--"is it work to make
yon sparks go, blue and green and red, as fast as ever ye like to
drive 'em?"

"Te-he, 'tis just a bit o' sport--I hadn't thought of it in that
light." And soon he was blowing steadily.

Later, when David the smith was going to America and wished to leave
his forge with the half-witted Billy, he proposed the smith's work as
play.

"Te-he," laughed Billy, "am I to play wi' all your fine tools, David?"

"Ay, just that. I've taught ye the way o' them and Dan Foster's lad
from Brow Farm shall come and blow the bellows for you."

"Will that be work for Dan Foster's lad, or play?"

"Hard work, Billy--grievous hard work, while you are just playing at
making horseshoes, fence railings, and what not."

"And I'm to play at making horseshoes," went on Fool Billy, "while Dan
Foster's lad's sweating hard at bellows-blowing."

CHAPTER III

_Community effort is needed to make better conditions for
all, in streets and public places, for water and milk supply,
hospitals, markets, housing problems, etc. Restraint for sake
of neighbors._

Quite slowly but surely, the idea is dawning on the social
horizon that the persistence of conditions prejudicial to
human prosperity is discreditable to a civilized community,
and that economics if not ethics calls for their control.

_Alice Ravenhill._

It is the new view that disease must be understood and
overcome; that hospitals, dispensaries, surgical and medical
treatment, nursing and preventive measures must be developed
and dovetailed into a general social scheme for the
elimination of preventable diseases and a very substantial
reduction in the prevalence of such diseases as cannot as
yet be classed as preventable.

_Edward Devine, Social Forces._

Nature endows the vast majority of mankind with a birthright
of normal physical efficiency. It is the duty of those who
aspire to be known as social workers each to do his share in
confirming his fellow beings in this possession.

_Dr.