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"Look here, Grant," he said "So up and planted, soin without any land at all Which do you belong to?"

"The last, sir," I said

"Right! Well, I suppose you are not going to wait for one uncle to take

a garden for you and the other to dig it up?"

"No," I said sturdily; "I shall work for ht! I don't like boys to be cocky and impudent but I like a little

self-dependence"

As the tiht raft He used to encourage me to ask

questions, and I must have pestered hiht," he used to say; "the boy who asks questions learns

far ht"

"Why, sir?" I said

"Well, I'll tell you He has got his bit of ground ready, and is

waiting for the seed or young plant to be popped in Then it begins to

grow at once Don't you see this; he has half-learned what he wants to

know in the desire he feels That desire is satisfied when he is told,

and the chances are that he never forgets Now you say tothis plu red brick wall one bright winter's

day, for the tione by very quickly Old Browns the whetstone and a thin-bladed saw

that he used to cut through the thicker branches