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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I'm obliged to them for nothin'; but I'd like the little one to have a better chance than the marryin' o' a man like me, an' if anything'll get it for her, it'll be schoolin'."
He never give Tom a chance, an' how am I goin' to love Him now? Tom," she pointed a shaking finger at the coffin in the next room, "born, as you might say, drinkin'. His father died in a drunken fit, and his mother give it to her baby with her milk. Then, what schoolin' did he get? Nothin', 'less it was his mother lickin' him. Tom's often told me that.
"I don't think my head was meant for much schoolin', but of course I'll go until I'm big enough to work. Are you goin' to write to that friend of yours and muther's to-day? If you do would you mind" she hesitated and her face flushed slightly "would you mind sayin' I'm awful much obliged for bein' sent to Atlantic City? I haven't took it in good yet.
There isn't a gaol in the colony as tight as this we are now in; for I've tried the vartues of two or three on 'em, and I know the mater'als they are made of, as well as the men that made 'em; takin' down being the next step in schoolin', to puttin' up, in all such fabrications."
But Geordie seemed convinced that through this dog-eared volume lay the only royal road to learning. He had already opened the book at one of the little lessons near the end which he seemed to think he had not sufficiently mastered in the "schoolin' days" already far away in the distance to the little herd-boy.
You need him at home, and he knows enough to get along in the world." "I want him to learn as much as he can. I'd like to send him to school till he is sixteen." "He's had as much schoolin' now as ever I had," said the squire, "and I've got along pooty well.
I guess I've got enough education to do me; anyhow, I can write Ozark Briskow in the lower right-hand corner and that seems to get me by." "You wouldn't consent to go back or have a tutor, like Allie?" "Who, me?" Briskow laughed scornfully. "Um-m! Merely a suggestion. You are the architect of your own career." "I'm fed up on that kind of schoolin', Mr. Gray.
"Don't need no schoolin' to know a renegid," said Copper. He had made three yards down the hill out of sight, unless they could see through rocks, of the enemy's smoking party. The young man laughed; and tossed the soldier a black sweating stick of "True Affection." "You don't get this eh?" said the young man. "We do. We take it from the trains as we want it.
"And there ain't a woman in the Mile End Road as 'ud a-done it cheaper, with bread at fourpence threefarden a quartern and landlords clamburin' for rent every Monday morning almost afore the sun's up and folks draggin' and slidderin' on till their shoes is only fit to throw after brides and Christmas comin' and sevenpence a week for schoolin'!" Peter winced under the last item.
Ikey favored his friend with a sly wink, but only said crisply: "I don't know about it. I was going to wash the store windows. Where are Whistler and Torry going?" "As far as Blue Reef. They say the bass are schoolin' out there." "They'd better be on the lookout for subs, as far out as the Reef," Ikey said solemnly. "I don't believe they've got this coast half patrolled.
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