关于跑步的英语作文【优秀20篇】

你是不是恰巧想通过跑步来锻炼身体，或者跑步是你喜欢的一项运动?请你就跑步写一篇英语作文吧。

关于跑步的英语作文篇一

I like many kinds of sports, such as swimming, running, table-tennis and badminton. But I like running most. Running is a good activity for people to keep healthy and relieve pressures. Besides, it’s very easy for me to running. I can run in the morning or after class. And I can run alone. I don’t have to find a partner to run with me. After running, I always feel good and relaxed. It has become a part of my life.

我喜欢很多种运动，比如游泳，跑步，乒乓球和羽毛球。但是我最喜欢的是跑步。跑步是人们保持身体健康和释放压力的运动。此外，我觉得跑步很容易。我可以在早上或课后进行跑步。我也可以一个人跑，不需要找伴一起跑。跑步过后，我总是感觉很好很放松。跑步已经成为我生活中的一部分。 关于跑步的英语作文篇二

Running is a whole body movement, which enables the bodys muscles rhythmic contraction and relaxation, so that muscle fiber

Dimension increased, protein content increased. Fit and muscular is one of the symbols.

Skeleton is the body of the stent, human activities leverage. In a period of growth and development of young people, adhere to running

Step can improve blood circulation, increase the supply of nutrients in bone cells increase bone cell growth capacity, from the

And to promote the normal development of the bone. The elderly, reduced metabolism, muscle gradually shrink, and bones appeared back

Line of change in bone and joint disease is also increasing. Persist in running can enhance metabolism, delayed bone

Degenerative changes, prevention of bone and joint disease in the elderly occur, so that you slow down aging. 关于跑步的英语作文篇三

I like many kinds of sports, such as swimming, running, table-tennis and badminton. But I like running most. Running is a good activity for people to keep healthy and relieve pressures. Besides, it’s very easy for me to running. I can run in the morning or after class. And I can run alone. I don’t have to find a partner to run with me. After running, I always feel good and relaxed. It has become a part of my life.

我喜欢很多种运动，比如游泳，跑步，乒乓球和羽毛球。但是我最喜欢的是跑步。跑步是人们保持身体健康和释放压力的运动。此外，我觉得跑步很容易。我可以在早上或课后进行跑步。我也可以一个人跑，不需要找伴一起跑。跑步过后，我总是感觉很好很放松。跑步已经成为我生活中的一部分。 关于跑步的英语作文篇四

Running is a whole body movement, which enables the bodys muscles rhythmic contraction and relaxation, so that muscle fiber

Dimension increased, protein content increased. Fit and muscular is one of the symbols.

Skeleton is the body of the stent, human activities leverage. In a period of growth and development of young people, adhere to running

Step can improve blood circulation, increase the supply of nutrients in bone cells increase bone cell growth capacity, from the

And to promote the normal development of the bone. The elderly, reduced metabolism, muscle gradually shrink, and bones appeared back

Line of change in bone and joint disease is also increasing. Persist in running can enhance metabolism, delayed bone

Degenerative changes, prevention of bone and joint disease in the elderly occur, so that you slow down aging.

The Hero in My Heart

As we know， most peoplehave heroes in their hearts. For me, Dr Norman Bethune is the hero in my heart.He was a great doctor from Canada.

Dr Bethune was good at performing operations.And taking photos was his hobby. In 1938， he came toChina. He opened hospitals and invented medical tools. He worked so hard thathe saved thousands of Chinese people. He didn’t stop totake care of his own injured hand and died.

I am deeply moved by his stories. So I’ll work hard today and do my best to helpothers.

I get up at seven o’clock in the morning every day. After I brush my teeth

and wash face, I eat my breakfast. My mother makes the breakfast for me. I go to

school at 7:30am, and come back from school at 6 pm. Before I go to bed I will

do some homework. I usually go to sleep at 10 pm. On the weekend, I will go to

play football with my friends, in the summer we like to go swimming. These are

my daily life.

These are lots of books in our daily life. Some are about history, some are

novels, and some are even about the dream in the future. I think its useful to

read stories, because it can be used sometimes. Once, there was a very difficult

question in an important history exam history, which wasnt mentioned in our

history books, even our teacher has never told us about it. But I remembered

clearly that I had read it in a history story, so I answered the question

without difficulty and became the only student in our class who answered the

question correctly. In my view, its useful to read stories.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar (阴历)holiday, occurring (存正)on the fifth

day of the fifth lunar month (农历史五月第五天). Dragon Boat Festival is my favourite

festival.During the holiday of Dragon Boat Festival,I got together with my

family to have a big meal.We ofen ate the zongzi.It tasted very nice.And we saw

the Dragon Boat Races.I felt excited because the race was bustling with noise

and excitement.At Dragon Boat Festival,we also drank realgar wine.Some people

thought drank realgar wine can protect themselves from illness.Dragon Boat

Festival was interesting and I like it very much.

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant (有意义的)holiday celebrated

(庆祝)in China, and the one with the longest history (历史最悠久). The Dragon Boat

Festival is celebrated by boat races (龙舟赛) in the shape of dragons. Competing

teams (竞争团队) row their boats forward to a drumbeat (击古)racing to reach the

finish end first.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs

(传统习俗)to attempts to (试图)rescue (搭救) the patriotic poet (爱国诗人)Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan

drowned (溺死) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese

citizens now throw bamboo leaves (竹叶) filled with cooked rice into the

water.

Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later

on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings(棕子).

The celebrations is a time for protection (防护) from evil (邪恶) and disease

(疾病) for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as

hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions (营养品),

and displaying (展示) portraits (画像) of evils nemesis(邪恶报应), Chung Kuei. If one

manages to (成功做...) stand (直立)an egg on its end at exactly 12:00 noon, the

following year will be a lucky one.

Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous(粘的) rice dumplings

called zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon

boats in memory of Qus dramatic death.

"As" this sentence is confirmed by the wonderful nature, yesterday the

wisper under light rain, my heart is heavy like a rock, because want to master

and old milk grave, before, I dont understand the real meaning of the qing Ming

day, until today after sweeping the tomb, I understand the true meaning of

tomb-sweeping day!

At seven o clock in the morning, we prepare to master and old milk grave,

grave is a fresh thing for me, we take tools and set off.

Walking the winding mountain road, I cant wait, after about an hour, we

came to the master and old grandmas grave, a year didnt come, graves are

covered with wild grass, you well after the division of labor, began to busy,

everything is in place, we started to burn money, along with the smoke, I seem

to see their shadow, they told me: study hard and cherish life.

Yes, life is short, happy every day to live, to continuously surpass

ourselves, surpass ourselves, dream will come true; The superego, the dream into

power; Beyond the self, to create beautiful life! I think life is constantly

transcend self, beyond the dream!!!!! Panoramic view of the city house on the

mountain, the mountain was full of golden golden in the rape, deep breath, deep

and remote light fragrance, fresh air, the flowers with irresistible power

explanation of the meaning of life!

Marine biological environment is a complex system including sea water, sea

water, soluble matter and suspended matter, seabed sediments and marine

organisms. The rich biological resources, mineral resources, chemical resources

and power resources in the sea are indispensable human resources treasure

houses, which are closely related to the survival and development of

mankind.

At present, the main objective of marine conservation is to protect marine

biological resources so that they can not be exhausted for sustainable use by

mankind. In particular, priority should be given to the conservation of marine

animals that are valuable and endangered. According to the UN investigation, due

to overfishing, mangrove accidental killing of non target to allow the killing

of marine organisms, the coastal engineering construction, deforestation,

pollution of the marine environment in general, at least 25 of the worlds most

valuable fisheries resources consumed, whales, sea turtles, manatees and many

other marine animal faces the danger of extinction. It is expected that with the

expansion of marine development, it is possible to cause more damage to marine

biological resources.

Marine protection task should first stop on the marine biological resources

excessive use, secondly to protect the marine biological habitat or habitat,

especially their migration, spawning, feeding, avoid Huahai coastline, beaches,

estuaries, coral reefs, to prevent heavy metals, pesticides, oil, organic

produce and eutrophication. Nutrients such as marine pollution. Maintain the

ability of regeneration of marine biological resources and the natural

purification ability of the sea water, maintain the marine ecological balance,

and ensure the sustainable development and utilization of the marine.

Its beyond reproach that we will come across all kinds of difficulties and

challenges in our life time .Some will be subjected to frequent sadness .Some

will lose their way to move on .Thus,only when we equip ourselves with hope and

courage can we finally succeed in the uncertain future.

Forrest Gump showed so great courage in the movie that he touched me a lot

. For one thing,no matter when and where Jenny got into trouble ,Forrest Gump

would bring her out of it without thinking how dangerous the situation would be

.Maybe we should all fell ashamed that we love ourselves more than we love love

,but Forrest showed great courage in love .For another,Forrest gump risked his

life to save Bubba in the war.Its courage that helped Forrest gain a series of

honor after war .Forrest Gump is beautiful for his perseverance and touches

others with his courage.

A person cant do without courage in terms of love and friendship ,let alone

life . A weak person may avoid the difficulties ,but a person with courage will

face up to it head-on. Therefore,letequip ourselves with great courage.

Almost all people work hard for success, but not all people can success.

Many people ask how to make success. I think the answer is persistence. The way

to success is full of failure and difficulty. People should never give up when

meet them. If you give up, you can’t be successful. No matter how hard it is,

persistence must be there.

The tomb-sweeping day as a holiday, are different from pure solar terms.

Solar term is a sign of phenology change, seasonal order in China, and it is

more a festival of custom activities and some memorable.

Tomb-sweeping day is Chinas traditional festival, is also the most

important memory of ancestors and the grave. This grave to commemorate the dead

mans a kind of activity. The han nationality and some minority are mostly in

the tombs. Grave, people to carry goods such as especially fruit, paper money to

the grave, will be food for offering in the family tomb, to use paper money on

fire new soil up to the grave, fold a few branches pale green branches ed in the

grave, and then kowtow worship salute, finally eat especially home. The tang

dynasty poet tu mus poem "qingming" : "rains fall heavily as qingming comes,

and passers-by with lowered spirits go. Restaurant where? Boy pointed apricot

blossom village." Write the ching Ming festival special atmosphere.

Ching Ming festival, also called TaQingJie, according to the solar calendar

for, it is in every year on April 4 to 6, between, it is beautiful spring

scenery spring-out of season, also is a good time to people spring outing, so

the ancients had qingming outing, and carry out a series of customs sports

activities.

Until today, tomb-sweeping day ancestor worship, mourning the late

relatives customs still prevail.

It was Mother’s Day.Sun Zheng thought he should do something for

hismother.He decided to help his mother do some housework.After school he went

toa shop to buy some food on his way home.

When he got home, he did his best to cook some nice food,though he

couldn’tdo the cooking well.Thenhe cleaned the room.He felt very tired, but he

wasvery happy.

When his father and his mother came back and saw the clean rooms and

disheswhich weren’t so nice, they were very happy.They had their supper

together.Hismother said, "Thank you,my child!"

A little monkey picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home.But the pumpkin is toobig.The monkey cant take it home.

Suddenly he sees a panda riding a bike towards him. He watches the bike. "l have a good idea. I can roll the pumpkin. It likes a wheel."

So he rolls the pumpkin to his home. When his mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised and says, "How can you carry it home?" The little monkey answers proudly, "l cant lift it, but l can roll it." His mother smiles and says, " What a clever boy!"

Recently, my father changed a new mobile phone, which is Samsung svmvng.

Silver gray shell, is flip, very beautiful. As soon as I turn over the lid, I

emit seven colors of light.

It has a lot of functions. Open the game, there is a my "pet", open a look,

wow! A kitten. I cant play, just press, the kitten disappeared, I see, broken!

Hurry to ask Dad, dad looked and said: "Oh, Lin Lin, how did you buy the kitten!

I managed to raise the kitten so much that its time to take part in the

competition. Why did you buy the kitten? " I said, "Dad, Im sorry, I cant play,

you teach me." My father bought a kitten with 8 yuan and taught me how to feed

it.

Dads cell phone also has the function of taking pictures. At noon, the

whole family gathered around the dining table to have a meal. I took a picture

of everyone, so that my grandfather, grandmother, father and mother looked at

their appearance. They all laughed, and I also laughed.

When I grow up, I want to buy a better cell phone than dads.

著名国学大师王国维在其《人间词话》中谈到人生的三种境界，一曰：“独上高楼，望尽天涯路。”;二曰：“为伊消得人憔悴”;三曰：“蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处。”与此相似，跑步也有三种境界。

一个人从呱呱坠地到咿咿学语，首先学会的是走，其次才是跑，但我却对跑有着莫大的兴趣，因为在奔跑时，我能清楚的感觉到周围的空气在我的带动下不再一成不变，而开始诡谲莫测、变化多端，仿佛它们都随我而动，任我调配，这是走所不能给予的。在走路时，或许能感受到微风拂面，但这是风儿在带着我走，而不是我引领它，比起随“风”逐流，我更乐于勇往直前。

这是跑步的第一种境界，源自于兴趣及对跑步最直接、最浅显的感受，我仅仅因为喜欢跑步而跑步。

随着年龄的增长，学校开始举办运动会，其中径赛的代表便是跑步。作为从小跑到大的我来说，自然不甘落于人后。于是我开始为比赛做准备，为获得名次而训练，为赢得第一名时同学们为我呐喊、欢呼时潜藏在心的那一点小小的虚荣而奔跑。渐渐地，“山外有山，人外有人。”在短短的赛道上总有着我拼尽全力也不能超越的人。王安石在《游褒禅山记》中说：“尽吾志也而不能至者，可以无悔矣。”我却恰与之相反，我觉得只要我努力，总能超越他人，但当美好的梦想与残酷的现实相碰撞时，脆弱美好的幻想总是不堪一击，我渐渐陷入无尽的痛苦与迷惘中，因为我是为了争夺名次而进行痛苦的长跑。

这是跑步的第二种境界，也是最无味、最低级、最浅薄的境界。

直到一个夕斜的黄昏，我垂头丧气地在操场上跑步，速度不快，但超越了很多人，大多数人在被我超越的一刻也提速，但保持不了多久就无奈地减速，茫茫人海中我注意到一位同学，尽管他一次次被我超过，但他始终保持着他自己的步伐，全然没有被别人影响，而他满头大汗也遮不住的愉悦在黄昏中温柔地散开，轻轻飘进我的心灵，却翻起了千层浪花……

我想起了我跑步的初衷：不为名次，不为比赛，为的仅仅是享受跑步带来的快乐。小时跑步的我尽管跑不快，但小时的我跑步远比如今的我更轻松、更快乐。

我忽然间明白了跑步的真正意义，它不仅是一项强身健体的运动，不止是比赛场上虚无缥缈的名次，更是跑步时我与天地同在的胸怀，万物皆随我动的惬意，也是将压力、烦恼统统抛诸脑后，尽情狂奔的洒脱，此乃第三境是也!

Today is the annual traditional festival in China, "Spring Festival". The morning sun was still in bed, I was like the sound of firecrackers to wake up. I get up and wash, this is my brother and sister have been wearing new clothes neat and I go to visit my grandparents and grandparents give us pay New Years call, each made a big red, I opened the door to stay, which contained a $100 bill, I like to eat honey, happy the flowers.

After eating dumplings, my mother said that I dont have to write my homework today. I can play a day with my brother and sister. I am very happy after I hear it.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. On this day, every family has to eat dumplings, set off firecrackers, put up couplets and hang lanterns, which is the happiest and happiest day of the year.

With the development of Internet, more and more people tend to shop on the

Internet. Online shopping has provided some benefits for us, but it also has

some disadvantages at the same time.

For one thing, online shopping has brought some convenience for consumers.

Instead of going one shop to another, people can choose and buy all kinds of

commodities they like as long as they click the mouse gently. This is not only a

better choice for the old who do not have enough energy to go outside but also a

great convenience for those who have no time to go shopping in person. In

addition, consumers have more choices and can do some comparison when they are

shopping on the Internet. They can glance over various commodities in all

shapes, sizes and colors and decided to buy or not. Furthermore, online shopping

has made a great contribution to the development of express delivery

industry.

However, for another, shopping on the Internet also has some shortcomings.

Firstly, those who shop on the Internet can’t try the goods before they buy.

Sometimes, the real goods are not the same as the goods they see on the

Internet. Secondly, some shops on the Internet are dishonest and they would not

deliver the goods after paying. And if this situation happens, the consumers

would find nowhere to complain and never pull out the money any longer.

Therefore, we should pay more attention when shopping on the Internet.

When I learned English, I felt so hard, because no matter hard I tried, I

just could not understand the grammar. One day, my sister asked me why was I so

confused with English, I told her I did not know, I was so afraid of it. Then

she asked me to watch English movie and listened to the English songs.

At first, I fell in love with these songs, I learned to sing them, I found

I could remember more and more words. I also felt very interested in the movie,

I could learn the local words. With interest, I make great progress, I am not

afraid of English any more. Interest is the best teacher.

我气愤地朝天上大喊：“我最讨厌跑步了!——”

我为什么讨厌跑步呢?这可要从星期二说起……

星期二的下午，第二节课是上体育课。上体育课的时候，听别人说这次体育考试呢。我一副无所谓的态度，优哉游哉的，非常悠闲。

我慢悠悠的走到操场，懒惰的走着，似是散步。

当我来到操场的时候，看到我们班的几个人好像是在跳远。我皱了皱眉头，心里想：该不会这次体育课是要跳远吧!欧买滴嘎嘎!

如我所料，体育老师说，考试是跳远。我瞬间惊呆了，头顶上有一道雷劈过，我又化成一尊石头，“喀拉喀拉”的碎裂了。

真是气死我了!上一次体育考试是这样，这一次体育考试还是跳远!我最不擅长的就是跳远了!别看我很高，腿很长。其实，我跳远最多能跳大约两跨步而已。而上学期我体育考试得的分数不太理想，这次……诶!

我气急败坏，想直接回教室不考了。可是，一想到我有史以来第一次考试考到“鸡蛋”，我只好乖乖就擒，去练习跳远。

我反反复复跳了好几次，发现我比上学期跳得远了那么一点点，嗯。别提有多高兴了。然后我在操场上和别人跑了几圈，气喘呼呼的。

突然，我无意间听到别人说星期四在体育考试，我气得简直是要吐血!

星期三时，我一觉睡醒，发现两条腿和腰很痛，我走路都是左拐右拐的，走个楼梯还要小心翼翼，真的是气死我了!当然，我知道那是怎么回事，还不是因为星期二那时候连得太累了，回家也还累着，而睡完一觉，你一醒来，保准你全身酸痛!

到星期四的时候，还是腿痛腰痛的。腿跨一步或走一步就很痛，腰可以说是挺直腰就痛。我心里真烦着，因为今天第四节课要体育考试了，我到现在还腿痛腰痛的，怎么应付体育考试呀!呀呀呀!都怪这个软弱的身体，呜呜呜……

其实，我还是在期盼着我的体育考试里会出现奇迹，拿个八十多分。可是，那是做梦的，结果是我拿到了一个七十多分，别提有多伤心了呀!

诶，这讨厌的星期二，还有这讨厌的跑步，我恨那!

This year is the 66th anniversary of the founding of new China! On October 1st， our whole family sit by the TV and waiting to watch early time big parade。

At ten o clock， the National Day military parade formally started， only saw many soldiers standing in front of tiananmen， navy， air force， army。。。 Stand straight， straight， like hits the forceful pine， President hus review。 The parade shows the motherland strong defense force， peaceful country and safe people， the motherland prosperity of beautiful landscape。

During the National Day， grandpa and I went to play in the humble administrators garden。 The car on the road， I saw the window renmin bridge garlands made of flowers on both sides， in the sunshine more bright beautiful， make the atmosphere of the National Day more strong! Walk in the small street to the humble administrators garden，Www. ZixueKaoShi .neT see stalls on both sides of the street with a red flag with five stars， to express the affection to the motherland。 Many foreign visitors to see the beautiful scenery heartfelt held out a thumb。 In the humble administrators garden is the chrysanthemum， chrysanthemum can be more color， yellow， red， white， colorful， beautiful!

The National Day make me deeper understanding of the motherland; A profound feelings for the motherland also; Make me more love my motherland China!

中文翻译：

今年是新中国成立66周年!十月一日这天，我们全家早早的坐在电视机旁等待观看盛世大阅兵。

十点钟，国庆阅兵式正式开始了，只看见许多军人站在天安门前，有海军、空军、陆军……都站得笔直笔直的，像一棵棵挺拔的青松，接受胡锦涛同志的检阅。整个阅兵式展示了祖国雄厚的国防力量，国泰民安，祖国繁荣昌盛的美好景象。

国庆期间，我和爷爷去了拙政园玩。汽车在路上行驶着，我看见窗外人民桥两旁用鲜花做成的花环，在阳光下更加亮丽，使国庆的气氛更加浓厚了!走在通往拙政园的那条小街上，看到街的两旁的摊位都插着五星红旗，表达对祖国的深厚感情。许多外来游客看见了这么美的景色由衷的伸出了大拇指。拙政园里有菊花，菊花的颜色可多了，有黄色的、红的、白的，五彩缤纷的，美丽极了!

国庆节使我对祖国的了解更深了，对祖国的感情也更深厚了，使我更加热爱我的祖国中国!

The tomb sweeping day is one of the traditional festivals in China. On

April 5th, people start to visit their ancestors’ tombs. Generally speaking,

people will bring the home-made food, some fake money and paper-made mansion to

their ancestors. When they start to honour their ancestor, they will light up

some candles and incense, put some flowers around the tombs. The most important

thing is to put the home-made food in front of the tombs. The food, also known

as sacrifices, is usually made up with a chicken, a fish and some pork. It’s a

symbol of the offspring’s respect to the ancestors. People believe that the

forbears will share the food with them. The children dedicate the food and money

to their forbears in order to show their love and caring. The young offspring

will go down on their knees and pray for their ancestors. They can say their

wishes in front of the tombs and the ancestors will make their dreams come

true.

In some provinces of China, people use different activities to commemorate

this day, for instance, spring-outing, swinging, tree planting and making

special food. One special food is Ay Tsao rice balls. It looks like Tang-yuan,

but its colour is green. Mix the ay tsao juice with the rice powder, then make

it into small balls. The Ay Tsao rice ball is done. People believe that eating

ay tsao rice balls can get rid of the bad luck and everything will go smoothly.

Other activities such as spring outing, tree planting are the other ways to

commemorate the forbears. For one thing, it is a sign that people should look

into the future and embrace the hope; for another thing, we do hope our ancestor

rest in peace.

When memory began for me, my grandfather was past sixty-a great tall man

with thick hair becoming gray. He had black eyes and a straight nose which ended

in a slightly flattened tip. Once he explained seriously to me that he got that

flattened tip as a small child when he fell down and stepped on his nose.

The little marks of laughter at the corners of his eyes were the prodnct of

a kindly and humorous nature. The years of work which had bent his shoulders had

never dulled his humour nor his love of a joke.

Everywhere he went, "Gramp" made friends easily. At the end of half an hour

you felt you had known him all your life. I soon learned that he hated to give

orders , but that when he had to, he tried to make his orders sound like

suggestions.

One July morning, as he was leaving to go to the cornfield, he said :

"Edwin, you can pick up the potatoes in the field today if you want to do that.

" Then he drove away with his horses.

The day passed, and I did not have any desire to pick up potatoes. Evening

came and the potatoes were still in the field. Gramp, dusty and tired, led the

horses to get their drink.

"How many bags of potatoes were there?" Gramp inquired. "I dont know.

"

"How many potatoes did you pick up?"

"I didnt pick any. " "Not any! Why not?"

"You said I could pick, them up if I wanted to. You didnt say I had to.

"

In the next few minutes I learned a lesson I would not forget: when Gramp

said I could if I wanted to, he meant that I should want to.

Gram hated cruelty and injustice. The injustices of history, even those of

a thousand years before, angered her as much as the injustices of her own

day.

She also had a deep love of beauty. When she was almost seventy-five, and

had gone to live with one of her daughters, she spent a delightful morning

washing dishes because, as she said, the beautiful patterns on the dishes gave

her pleasure. The bird, the flowers, the clouds-all that was beautiful around

her- pleased her. She was like the father of the French painter, Millet, who

used to gather grass and show it to his son , saying , "See how beautif ul this

is ! "

In a pioneer society it is the harder qualities of mind and character that

are of value. The softer virtues are considered unnecessary. Men and women

struggling daily to earn a living are unable, even for a moment, to forget the

business of preserving their lives. Only unusual people, like my grandparents,

manage to keep the softer qualities in a world of daily struggle.

Such were the two people with whom I spent the months from June to

September in the wonderful days of summer and youth.