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Updated: May 3, 2025
He talked proud and high-learnt about 'em, till I got tired out, and pinted him to the other names of 'em. Then his feathers drooped, and sez he, "A Norway spruce, a willer, a sycamore, and a pine. Dum it all, what do they want to put on such names as them onto trees that grow right in our dooryard?"
"I'm not reading all that," honesty compelled Anne to confess, as she beamed with pleasure at Mrs. Collins's praise. "I read when the words are short, and when they're long and the print's solid, I make it up out of my head to fit the pictures." "Ah! you come of high-learnt folks," said Mrs. Collins, admiringly.
Riley, after a long perusal of the carpet. "Wouldn't a parson be almost too high-learnt to bring up a lad to be a man o' business? My notion o' the parsons was as they'd got a sort o' learning as lay mostly out o' sight. And that isn't what I want for Tom.
And he sez, "He guessed they would worry along somehow without 'em." "Wall," sez I, "I am mortified as mortified as a dog." And I wuz. There wuzn't any need of makin' any mistake about the trees, for there wuz a little metal plate fastened to each tree, with the name marked on it the common name and the high-learnt botanical name.
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