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"That seems a heap of money to put in book-learnin'," said the old man, thoughtfully, his eyes fixed on Gordon. "My whole edication didn't cost twenty-five dollars. With all that learnin', you'd know enough to teach the Ridge College." Gordon, who had figured it out, began to give his necessary expenses. When he had finished, the old man counted out his bills.
"Why, no, I can't let's hear," was the response of the wagoner, somewhat astounded by the volubility of his new acquaintance. "Well, then, I'll tell you. He sent me away, to make my fortin, and git my edication, 'mongst them who was 'cute themselves, and maybe that an't the best school for larning a simple boy ever went to. It was sharp edge agin sharp edge.
"You can't do nothing, no how, friend, unless you begin at the beginning. You'll have to begin when you're jest a mere boy, and set about getting your edication as I got mine. There's no two ways about it. It won't come to you; you must go to it. When you're put out into the wide world, and have no company and no acquaintance, why, what are you to do?
Oi wur afraid vor a bit when he came a-hanging aboot Polly, as the gal might ha' took to him, for he can talk smooth and has had edication, and Polly thinks a wonderful lot of that. Oi were main glad when she sent him aboot his business." "Well, there is one thing, Luke; if anything happens to him it will put an end to this Luddite business at Varley.
Lizzie 'nd I made it up between us that when the Old Man growed up we'd send him to collige 'nd give him a lib'ril edication, no matter though we had to sell the farm to do it.
"O, you may laugh if you plaze, and I see by the same that you don't know about the pig, with all your edication, Captain." "Well, what about the pig?" "Why, sir, did you never hear a pig can see the wind?" "I can't say that I did." "O, thin he does, and for that rayson who has a right to know more about it?"
O'Brien, in a state of most dignified offence; "Damho orth, you ould knave! is it the son of a miser that has fleeced an' robbed the whole counthry side that we 'ud let our daughther, that resaved the finish to her edication in a Dubling boardin' school, marry wid? Vic na hoiah this day!"
"At last the minister took down a big book OH! you precious old thing, how I love you!" 'You'll take this, he says, 'as my gift to you and the child; and with these two books to guide you, the child's edication won't go far wrong! he says; and then he gave Daddy the dictionary, too, Imogen; but I sha'n't tell you about that, because it's a brute, and I hate and 'spise it.
As day after day passed, it was noised about the settlement that Ezra Longman had run away, some saying that he had been seen upon a line of canal boats going to Albany. The mother watched each hour for some word from him. Then, with a sorrowful expression in the faded eyes, she said to Myra: "If Ezy had had any edication, he'd 'a' writ. He'll be a-comin' home some of these days."
Hippy waved her away and turned to Thompson. "What's the big idea, Jed?" he asked jovially. "That's what Ah wants t' know, Jim Townsend." "Eh? Townsend! I don't get you." "We uns up here ain't no fools even if we hain't got edication. We uns knowed you-all was comin'. If I'd seen ye before ye did this fer Liz an' Sue, I'd a plugged ye shore." "Just a moment, please. Let me get this straight.
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