He soon learned, also, that he could easily hold his own in the class work with the brightest of them.

The teachers, and students also, soon learned to know this.
Boys came to him for help in problems, and the younger girls chattered about him with laughing eyes and tossing curls.

What a wonder it was! He the simple, plainly-dressed country boy, big and awkward and ugly as he thought himself to be, becoming a person of some importance.

And so the days went all too swiftly by.

Contrary to his younger boyhood's experience, the closing hour came too soon, when it was time to go home to mother and chores and lessons.
And the mother shared the boy's happiness, for she could see the added joy of living and working which had come into his life by the added opportunities and new environment.