If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it.

If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others.

Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes.

Work at your books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

'I could a tale unfold'-- --!" She laughingly left the room and Elnora sat thinking, until she remembered how hungry she was, so she ate the food, drank the hot chocolate and began to feel better.
Then the Bird Woman came back and showed Elnora a long printed slip giving a list of graduated prices for moths, butterflies, and dragonflies.
"Oh, do you want them!" exulted Elnora.