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I goin' make Claude come home." Bonaventure could only look at him in amazement. St. Pierre looked away and continued: "'S no use. Can't stand it no longer." He turned suddenly upon the schoolmaster. "Why you di'n' tell me ed'cation goin' teck my boy 'way from me?" In Bonaventure a look of distressful self-justification quickly changed to one of anxious compassion. "Wait!" he said.
When I was leav' Gran' Point', Bonaventure, he cry, you know, like I tole you. He tell Sidonie he bringin' ed'cation at Gran' Point' to make Gran' Point' more better, but now ed'cation drive bes' men 'way from Gran' Point'. And den he say, 'St.
'tis mo' worth than the gole mine. Ah! sirs, tell me: what is gole without education?" They confronted the riddle for a moment. "Ed'cation want to change every thin' rellroad 'migrash'n." "Change every thing? Yes! making every thing better! Sirs, where is that country that the people are sorry that the railroad and the schoolhouse have come?"
"Naw, I dunno nut'n' 'bout dat. I look out for me and my boy, me. And beside," he abruptly threw away the staff he had trimmed, shut his knife with a snap, and thrust it into his pocket, "I dawn't see ed'cation make no diff'ence. You say ed'cation priest say religion me, I dawn't see neider one make no diff'ence. I see every man look out for hisself and his li'l' crowd.
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