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Updated: May 13, 2025
It was a man who carried a burden down the mountain-side. The burden was the carcass of a bear; the man had drawn the forelegs over his shoulders his jutting elbows making what had seemed the outstretched arms and above the head of the burden-bearer rose the great head of the bear. As the man came closer the animal's head flopped to one side and a red tongue lolled from its mouth.
It is no accident, surely, that the man who is increasingly idolized as the most representative of all Americans, the burden-bearer of his people, the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, should be our most inveterate humorist.
But the boss led the way back and his eye was first to find her.... There she was, silhouetted against the sunset as poor Benton had been seventy or eighty feet above the trail. Her head was down, her tongue fallen. The old burden-bearer seemed to have clambered up the rocks through some desperate impulse for a breeze or to die!
Then the burden-bearer would have to stumble forward through confused blackness so he hastened his steps until his own breath rattled into an exhausted rasp and his own heart hammered with the bursting ache of effort.
Both carried a jaded, almost a broken look, and Arthur was taking things to make him eat and sleep; while Leonard had daily accepted more and more of the young rector's complicating cares, until he was really the parish's chief burden-bearer. "No," he said to his father, "Arthur carries his whole work manfully on his own shoulders."
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