But I want him to get the business training, and then if he wants to go into something else he knows what the world is, anyway.

Heigh ?" "Oh yes!" March assented, with some compassion for the young man reddening patiently under his father's comment.
Dryfoos went on as if his son were not in hearing.

"Now that boy wanted to be a preacher.

What does a preacher know about the world he preaches against when he's been brought up a preacher?
He don't know so much as a bad little boy in his Sunday-school; he knows about as much as a girl.

I always told him, You be a man first, and then you be a preacher, if you want to.