THE WORRIES OF ANTICIPATION He crosses every bridge before he comes to it, is a graphic and proverbial rendering of a description of the man who worries in anticipation.

Something, sure, is going to happen.

He is always fearful, not of what is, but of what is going to be.

For twenty years he has managed to live and pay his rent, but at the beginning of each month he begins afresh to worry where "next month's rent is going to come from." He's collected his bills fairly well for a business life-time, but if a debtor fails to send in his check on the very day he begins to worry and fear lest he fail to receive it.

His wife has given him four children, but at the coming of the fifth he is sure something extraordinarily painful and adverse is going to happen.
He sees--possibly, here, I should say, _she_ sees--their son climbing a tree.