"My study has mostly been under my father.

Look at my hands." He held out big, strong hands, scarred and knotted, with horny palms uppermost, and he laughed.

"I can be proud of them, Miss Anderson....

But I had a splendid year in California at the university and I graduated from the Washington State Agricultural College." "You love wheat--the raising of it, I mean ?" she inquired.
"It must be that I do, though I never had such a thought.

Wheat is so wonderful.