I'm learning to be a horse-doctor! I LIKE that part of it, you know, but -- ----these people, they won't learn a fellow in his own language, they make him learn in German; so before I could tackle the horse-doctoring I had to tackle this miserable language.
"First off, I thought it would certainly give me the botts, but I don't mind now.

I've got it where the hair's short, I think; and dontchuknow, they made me learn Latin, too.

Now between you and me, I wouldn't give a -- ----for all the Latin that was ever jabbered; and the first thing _I_ calculate to do when I get through, is to just sit down and forget it.
'Twon't take me long, and I don't mind the time, anyway.

And I tell you what! the difference between school-teaching over yonder and school-teaching over here--sho! WE don't know anything about it! Here you've got to peg and peg and peg and there just ain't any let-up--and what you learn here, you've got to KNOW, dontchuknow -- or else you'll have one of these ------ spavined, spectacles, ring-boned, knock-kneed old professors in your hair.

I've been here long ENOUGH, and I'm getting blessed tired of it, mind I TELL you.