He don't take no interest in the stock, nor in the farm improvements.

Everybody else is dependent in this world on the farmer, and I think that we've got too many eddicated fellows settin' 'round now for the farmers to support." To this Garfield answered that he was sorry for the father's decision, since his son, if permitted to come the next term, would be far enough advanced to teach school, and so begin to help himself along.

Teaching would pay better than working on the farm in the winter.
"Do you really think Henry can teach next winter ?" asked the father, to whom the idea was a new one.
"I should think so, certainly," answered Garfield.

"But if he can not do so then, he can in a short time." "Wal, I will think on it.

He wants to come back bad enough, and I guess I'll have to let him.