I'm going to try and persuade Dad to let us put in hogs." "Hogs," repeated the Dean, in a baffled tone.

"Hogs, my dear.

Who ever heard of raising hogs when they could raise anything else at all?
I'm sure that Horace never tried hogs on his farm." Now it just happened that Kit had a smattering knowledge of Horace, gleaned from Billie.

In the old days back home, when they had studied together, they had seemed to always get the personal side of the old heroes and people of fame.

And just now the only thing she could remember about Horace popped up in her mind.
"Well, I'll bet a cookie there was many a time when he wished he had.
Don't you remember how he wrote, "'Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread and liberty.' "We've had our hollow tree, and I'm afraid unless we get right down to business now, we'll have all the crusts of bread and liberty we fancy.