Share the kindliness
Manifest no jealousy
A new existence
Most of my grade school teachers started the day with reading out loud to the class.
My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Vanderwheel, introduced us to Treasure Island and Call of the Wild.
Jack London at 9AM in sixth grade can be a lot for a kid but I can still hear Mr. Vanderwheel read: To Buck’s surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him. They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton. As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence. Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship. But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.
Pretty good thoughts, for a dog.
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