27/28 No, you can't be dull; there is too much to take your attention. It will be a rougher education, but it is a grand healthy life--one like this out in a new land, to make a good simple natural home. People fear to come to some of these places, because they say there's no doctor. I am a doctor, Nic." "Yes, father; and I've heard say that you were a very clever one." "I did my best, boy. But I was going to say I am a doctor, and saving for an occasional accident, which nature would heal, I am like a fish out of water." "Break-fast!" cried a merry, girlish voice; and Hilda, looking bright and eager, looked in at the stable door. |