Stories are great only when they are alive. This one lives. Its characters are real, breathing people, and such nice people, moreover, that you will want to know them. You will wish that you knew Jim Gregory and his wife, the lovely lady of Brookfield, and Peter, and Leona, and Mr. Parmalee, and the rest. Above all, however, you will wish that you knew Dumb-Bell, or had known him before he came to his last point up there among the moaning pines, and held it.