Perhaps some of you remember a story written by Bret Harte called "The Luck of Roaring Camp." It was the story of a mining town. It was a rough place, with the roughest kind of people living there. There was only one woman who lived there among those miners. And she died giving birth to a baby.

The miners did not know what to do with him, so they put him in a box layered with old rags. They knew the box was not good enough for him, so one of them traveled to a distant town and bought a cradle for him. Then another decided the rags were not clean enough for him, and he traveled far away to buy something better. Then they all realized the house he was living in was dirty, so they cleaned it. They also had to clean up themselves because they held this baby. They also had to quit fighting and…