I used to have my breakfast at seven," and then telling the boy all about his boyhood, the cheery poet led him to the dining-room, and for the first time he breakfasted away from home and ate pie--and that with "The Autocrat" at his own breakfast-table! A cosier time no boy could have had.

Just the two were there, and the smiling face that looked out over the plates and cups gave the boy courage to tell all that this trip was going to mean to him.
"And you have come on just to see us, have you ?" chuckled the poet.
"Now, tell me, what good do you think you will get out of it ?" He was told what the idea was: that every successful man had something to tell a boy, that would be likely to help him, and that Edward wanted to see the men who had written the books that people enjoyed.

Doctor Holmes could not conceal his amusement at all this.
When breakfast was finished, Doctor Holmes said: "Do you know that I am a full-fledged carpenter?
No?
Well, I am.

Come into my carpenter-shop." And he led the way into a front-basement room where was a complete carpenter's outfit.
"You know I am a doctor," he explained, "and this shop is my medicine.
I believe that every man must have a hobby that is as different from his regular work as it is possible to be.

It is not good for a man to work all the time at one thing.