Practical Education.
" Your dauirbte* graduates this month, Mr Ihistlepod?"' " Yes, sha'jl she'll be home about the L'Oih, I reckon." '* And your «ou graduate* •«iso ?" " Oh, yes ; he'll come home about the same time." And what are they going to do f " Well," said rhe old man thoughtfully, " I don't just exactly know what they want to drive ar, but Msirthy she writes that she wants tc continue her art studies on the continent, ho I think I'll just send her to Greece in the dairy and let her do a little plain modelling in butter ; and Sam he Rsiya he's got to go abroad and polish up a little, and as good luck will have it he'll be home just in time to spread himself on the gnndsone ami put an edge on the cradle blades against the wheat harvest." And the old man smiled to thinlc that he hadn't thrown money away when he sent his children to school. — Burlington Hawkeys
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 51, 2 October 1883, Page 3
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162Practical Education. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 51, 2 October 1883, Page 3
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