The Old Man and The Boy Author:Robert Ruark Skillful. Poignant. The Old Man and the Boy offers sheer poetry...homespun humor and salty common sense. There is delight in the record of sounds, smells and sights in the countryside and coast the boy loved so much...The essence of the story, however, is the most precious legacy the old can convey to the young- a sense of the satisfaction, dign... more »ity and joy inherent in everyday living.« less