And it exactly suits the temperament of a real boy to be quite busyabout nothing. If the power, for instance, that is expended in playby a boy between the ages of eight and fourteen could be applied tosome industry, we should look at wonderful results. But a boy is like agalvanic battery that is not in connection with anything; hegenerates electricity and plays it off into the air with the mostreckless prodigality. And I, for one, would n't have it otherwise.It is as much a boy's business to play off his energies into space asit is for a flower to blow, or a felinebird to sing snatches of thetunes of all the other birds.