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There ain't no dividen's in love." "Naterally," observed Mr. Roberts, "ye know nothin' of love, Mister Bobo, an' ye never will. I'm sorry for ye, too. Life without love is like eatin' bull-beef jerky without salsa!" "I've raised Mandy," continued Mr. Bobo, ignoring this interruption, "very keerful. I give her good schoolin', victuals, an' a heap o' clothes.
So you take it and git the boy schoolin'. Costs money I know that git him all it'll buy. Send him where they keep the best. Don't yuh let up n'er let him whilst they's a dollar left. Put it all into his head then he can't lose it, and he can make it earn more. An' I guess I needn't ask yuh be good to him. He ain't got anybody not a soul Injuns don't count.
I know there's somethin' a man has to have besides what he gets on th' open range among th' cattle an' th' bronchos an' th' rattlesnakes he's got to be ground in th' mill of schoolin' of books; he's got to be hammered into shape under th' heels of 'civilization'; he's got to be trained to jump through and roll over an' know which fork to eat with before a girl like you "
Jabez give me a good firm hand-shake, an' didn't rub it in about the silkworms; so that everything just slid along as smooth as joint-oil, an' I had a good opportunity to estimate the benefit of Barbie's schoolin'. She was a heap more changed than I had supposed at first; the' was a way she had of holdin' her head an' walkin' an' talkin', that showed me quick enough that money spent on her edication wasn't nowise wasted.
"When you get to be a big boy, and have a teacher to learn you knowledge, you'll find that large bodies moves slowly. I didn't have as much schoolin' as I'd like, but what I learned I remember, an' I put it into practice. That's where the use of books comes in to be put in practice.
He couldn't quite believe that it was all true and that he was actually awake. He had worried so long about her cuttin' into some new game as soon as her schoolin' was done that he hardly dared rejoice for fear it would wake him up; but it didn't take her long to begin enjoyin' her old freedom again. It took us some longer to adjust ourselves to her, however.
We only brung him up till he was ten years old, and then an uncle he was named after took him and gin him a college schoolin', and then put him into his store in Worcester. Your head aches wus, don't it? Poor thing! The pennyr'yal will be steeped directly," she added, in an aside to Madam Conway, who had groaned aloud as if in pain.
Many a better scholar nor you, and better-looking man too, has been anged afore now, for all his schoolin'. "Says he, 'I'll soon set you up, Tom. Let me see if I can find anything here that will do for a turn-and-quit. "Close to where I lay there, was a furrin officer who had his head nearly amputated with a sabre cut.
It was just after I returned from school, at Denver." He watched her, saying lowly: "So it was Denver. I'd been wonderin'. I knowed it must have been some place. Schoolin' is a thing that I never had time to monkey with I reckon my folks didn't believe a heap in 'em." "You've lived in the West all your life you were born in the West, I suppose?" He looked keenly at her.
"Ah can read pretty well," the woman replied, "but Ah never had enough schoolin' to write much; mah mother was ill all the time, an' Ah had to stay home. But Steve, he writes beautiful, an' he makes out all mah bills an' things like that."
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