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“I’ve been thinking ever since I came home,” he said that night to Talitha, “of something Professor Scott said: ‘It isn’t enough to get good things for ourselves, we must pass them on.’ I wish I could take some of the boys back to school with me.”

“I think you can reckon on Abner Gooch and the three Shackley boys already. I call that a pretty fair beginning. And there’ll be more. I heard that Dan Gooch said yesterday over at the Settlement, ‘If you want ter know what thet school down below here kin teach your young-uns, jest look at Squar’ Dodd’s manshun yander.’”

Martin laughed grimly. “If they do go they won’t think it such a work of art when they come back.”

“When they get back they’ll have learned enough to understand, I reckon,” responded Talitha. “The thing is to get them there. You ought to see how Gincy’s working, and the whole family too, for that matter. I actually believe they’ve picked most of the berries for ten miles around here. They are at it now. Just think of Dan Gooch going berrying!”