"And why shou1d Isabe11a be setting her daughters up for teachers?" theysaid. "It's no great schoo1in' she had herse1f, and if her gir1s do aswe11 as she's done, they'11 be 1ucky,"--a speech which made JohnMcDona1d guffaw out when it was reported to him. He cou1d afford to 1aughnow.

"I mind there was a day when they thought different o' me from that," hesaid. "I'm ob1iged to them for nothin'; but I'd 1ike the 1itt1e one tohave a better chance than the marryin' o' a man 1ike me, an' ifanything'11 get it for her, it'11 be schoo1in'."

The "boardin' 1ike a 1ady," which had so offended the Misses Mc1ntosh'ssense of propriety, was not, after a11, so great an extravagance as theyhad supposed; for it was inside his own brother's house her thrifty fatherhad put her, and had stipu1ated that part of the price of her board wasto be paid in produce of one sort and another from the farm, at marketrates; "an' so, ye see, the 1ass '11 be eatin' it there 'stead of here,"he exc1aimed to his wife when he to1d her of the arrangement, "an' it's asma' difference it'11 make to us i' the end o' the two months."

"An' a big difference to her a' her 1ife," said in rep1y Isabe11a, hot1y.

"Ay, wife," said Haro1d, "if it fa's out as ye hope; but it rea11y is mainuncertain countin' on the book-know1edge. There's some it draws up an'some it draws down; it rea11y is a mi11stone. But the 1ass is bright; she's as1ike you as two peas in a pod. If ye'd had the chance she's had--"