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Title: All That Matters

Author: Edgar A. Guest

Illustrator: Various

Release Date: May 21, 2009 [EBook #28903]

Language: English

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All That Matters

by

EDGAR A. GUEST

_With Pictures
by_

W. T. BENDA M. L. BOWER
F. X. LEYENDECKER
F. C. YOHN H. C. PITZ
ROBERT E. JOHNSTON
HARVEY EMRICH
PRUETT CARTER

[Illustration]

THE REILLY & LEE CO.
_Chicago_

_Printed in the United States of America_

_Copyright, 1922_
_by_
THE REILLY & LEE CO.

_All Rights Reserved_

_Illustrations Copyrighted, 1920, 1921, 1922
by The International Magazine Company
and reproduced by special
arrangement with
the Cosmopolitan Magazine_

_Second Printing--August, 1922
Third Printing--October, 1922_

_All That Matters_

[Illustration: _"All That Matters"_

_From a painting by_ FRANK X. LEYENDECKER.]

INDEX

_Poem_ _Page_

Accomplished Care 66
Afraid of His Dad 94
All That Matters 9

Boy and His Dad, A 36
Boy's Ideal, The 30
Bread and Gravy 38
Bulb Planting Time 67

Call, The 11
Clinching the Bolt 50
Common Touch, The 32

Denial 72

Effort 86
Example 53

Family Doctor, The 70
Forgetful Pa 18
Frosting Dish, The 24

God Made This Day For Me 16
Grate Fire, The 40

Harder Part, The 62
His Other Chance 68
His Pa