Just look at it year after year gobbling up our boys and girls, and think
over the ones you know who have gone, and see what they've come to. Among
the men as far as I remember, Joel Harris went into a law office and made
a rich, respectable man; and two girls married and have good homes; the
others, many of them, I couldn't name to you the places they are in. This
neighbourhood needs reforming, and if Pa has set out to attempt it, I'll
lend a hand, and I guess from what you got this week, you'll be in a
position to help better than you could have helped before."
"Yes I guess so too," said Junior emphatically.
He gladly went back to the cream wagon. Peter didn't want him to, but
there was a change in Junior. He was no longer a wilful discontented boy.
He was a partner, who was greatly interested in a business and felt
dissatisfied if he were not working at furthering it. He had little to
say, but his eyes were looking far ahead in deep thought. The first
morning he started out, while Junior unhitched his horse, Peter filled the
wagon and went back to the barn where Mickey was helping him.
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