I don't think all our young people are lazy, Hattie; but how in creation, unless the Lord rains down a few farmers, are we going to support all our young lawyers and doctors?
They say the world is getting healthier and better, but we've got to fight a little more, and raise some more criminals, and we've got to take to eating pies and doughnuts for breakfast again, or some of our young sprouts from the colleges will go a begging." "You don't mean to undervalue the advantages of a good education, do you, Mr.Wood ?" said Mr.Maxwell.
"No, no; look at Harry there.

Isn't he pegging away at his studies with my hearty approval?
and he's going to be nothing but a plain, common farmer.

But he'll be a better one than I've been though, because he's got a trained mind.

I found that out when he was a lad going to the village school.

He'd lay out his little garden by geometry, and dig his ditches by algebra.