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"'Tis Davy will save us, Tom," said Polly Ann, "with the l'arnin' he's got while the corn was grindin'." I had, indeed, been reading at the mill while the hopper emptied itself, such odd books as drifted into Harrodstown. One of these was called "Bacon's Abridgment"; it dealt with law and it puzzled me sorely.
But Samson looked on as taciturn and unmoved as though he had never dined elsewhere. And yet, his eyes were busy, for suddenly he laid down his knife, and picked up his fork. "Hit 'pears like I've got a passel of things ter l'arn," he said, earnestly. "I reckon I mout as well begin by l'arnin' how ter eat." He had heretofore regarded a fork only as a skewer with which to hold meat in the cutting.
"What has salt ?" "A-ah, an' there's where ye're ign'rant, young feller, wit' all yer buke l'arnin'. 'Tis gold I mean gold thot ye can show t' thim thot gits cur'us. But if it was me, I'd sink me shaf' in a likelier spot than what this spot is I wuddn't be bringing up durt like this, an' be callin' the hole a mine!
All the rocks had a thought for the stranger, close to his heart and quick on his tongue, and as Hite, half skeptical, half beguiled, listened, his suspicion of the man as a "revenuer" began to fade. "The revenuers ain't up ter no sech l'arnin' ez this," he said to himself, with a vicarious pride.
Thus it is that our craft has the honour to be called the United States ship the `Poughkeepsie, instead of the `Arrow, or the `Wasp, or the `Curlew, or the `Petrel, as might otherwise have been the case. But the wisdom of Congress is manifest, for the plan teaches us sailors geography." "Yes, sir, yes, one can pick up a bit of l'arnin' in that way cheap. The Poughkeepsie, Captain ?"
And, if he went back and discharged his promise, and then returned again to the new fascination, could he bring Sally with him into this life Sally, whom he had scornfully told that a "gal didn't need no l'arnin'?" And the answer to all these questions was only that there was no answer.
I was about to interrupt, but Polly Ann's next remark arrested me. "Tom," said she, "he oughter be eddicated." "Eddicated!" exclaimed Tom, with a kind of dismay. "Yes, eddicated," she repeated. "He ain't like you and me. He's different. He oughter be a lawyer, or somethin'." Tom reflected. "Ay," he answered, "the Colonel says that same thing. He oughter be sent over the mountain to git l'arnin'."
"Davy, lad, I'd kind o' like t' just t' feel it. They wouldn't be no hurt in me holdin' it, would they?" I passed it over. "Now, Davy," he declared, his head on one side, the letter held gingerly before him, "I wouldn't read that letter an I could. No, lad not an I could! But I've heared tell she had a deal o' l'arnin'; an' I'd kind o' like t' take a peek inside.
"Ay, that is downright red-skin l'arnin'" returned the other, laughing, through he was not altogether insensible to the pleasure of proving the superiority of his race by solving the difficulty, which he set about doing in his own peculiar manner. "Harkee, Sarpent," he continued more gravely, though too simply for affectation; "this is easierly explained than an Indian brain may fancy.
"Ay, but Dirck is a lad who will do honour to an education he is solid and thoughtful, and learning will not be thrown away on such a youth. Was he in England, that sedate lad might get to be a bishop." "I want no pishops in my family, Major Evans; nor do I want any great l'arnin'. None of us ever saw a college, and we have got on fery vell.
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