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Jo’s Boys

CHAPTER 4
13/27

Don't forget him, Dan,' said Ted, directing attention to the blighted being in the corner.
But Tom never sulked long, and came out from his brief eclipse with the cheerful proposition: 'Look here, we'll get the city to ship out to Dansville all the cases of yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera that arrive; then Nan will be happy and her mistakes won't matter much with emigrants and convicts.' 'I should advise settling near Jacksonville, or some such city, that you might enjoy the society of cultivated persons.

The Plato Club is there, and a most ardent thirst for philosophy.

Everything from the East is welcomed hospitably, and new enterprises would flourish in such kindly soil,' observed Mr March, mildly offering a suggestion, as he sat among the elders enjoying the lively scene.
The idea of Dan studying Plato was very funny; but no one except naughty Ted smiled, and Dan made haste to unfold another plan seething in that active brain of his.
'I'm not sure the farming will succeed, and have a strong leaning towards my old friends the Montana Indians.

They are a peaceful tribe, and need help awfully; hundreds have died of starvation because they don't get their share.

The Sioux are fighters, thirty thousand strong, so Government fears 'em, and gives 'em all they want.


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