In these days of 'crazy mixed-up kids' we have every reason to be struck by the content of Don Bosco's first dream in which he was shown the vocation from which he never swerved. In this dream, says the account in Butler's Lives of the Saints, he seemed to be surrounded by a crowd of fighting and blaspheming children whom he strove in vain to pacify, at first by argument and then with his fists. Suddenly there appeared a mysterious lady who said to him: 'Softly, softly... if you wish to win them! Take your shepherd's a staff lead them to pasture.