Not understanding what I saw, how could I measure the might-have-beens!

When he comes to you will he find a silly, nervous girl, all horrors and regrets and useless might-have-beens or will he find you strong and sane, healthily poised, ready to face the future and let the dead past go?

"I think ever of the might-have-beens.

Thomas Dekker Has-Beens, The............................. Walt Mason Having Done and Doing......................

From "A Heap o' Livin'." THE HAS-BEENS

Men say that fellows down and out ne'er leave the rocky track, but facts will show, beyond a doubt, that has-beens do come back.

And any man who still has health may with the winners stack, and have a chance at fame and wealthfor has-beens do come back.

Lions and Ants; The Has-Beens; The Welcome Man. MILLER, JOAQUIN.

But in a wild country like this one must always be expected to face a certain amount of risk; and it is never worth while to weep over the might-have-beens, or how could one be happy at all?"

But who would not believe that some wonderful novelty is presented to his intellect, when he is afterwards told, in the true bugbear style, that "the ares, in the former sense, are things that lie between the have-beens and shall-bes.

The have-beens are things that are past; the shall-bes are things that are to come; and the things that are, in the latter sense, are things that have not been, nor shall be, nor stand in the midst of such as are before them, or shall be after them.

That's what we are, Bobbywrecks, dodderers, has-beens!

In this "Last Leaf" I do not deal with "might-have-beens."