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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn if you've got natural gumption enough in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you. Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before." "But what about people who haven't natural gumption, Aunt Jimsie?"
'Dinna boast, said his mother. 'What wud you shoot, Christina, if you had a gun? 'I think I wud practise on a cocoa-nut, Jimsie, she said, with a small laugh. After tea Mrs. Robinson took Christina into the parlour while Jeannie tidied up. Presently the door bell rang, and Jimsie rushed to meet the postman. 'It's for Macgreegor, he announced, returning and handing a parcel to his mother.
Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. Isn't that worth learning, Aunt Jimsie?" "Yes, it is, dearie. When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."
Christina could not have cared much when she would listen to no explanations. . . . Now he had a great longing for the touch of his mother and the smile of his father, the soft speech of Jeannie and the eager pipings of wee Jimsie. Also, he wondered, with a sort of ache, how Willie was faring.
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