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ir enjoyment, and on the street a lively discussion started. Terry Watkins was laughing derisively at some rema

o make yourselves receiving sets! Too lazy? Baseball and swimming and loafing around

t you can't hear yourselves think on i

ing-glass in it somewhe

ng to ask advice from e

Bill Brown offered, as he and Gus, who had been detained

rown," said Do

your two cents' wor

Go and do something yourself before

ith a ruler." Ted was always in a bantering mood and eager for a laugh at anybody. "I'

h going to work in the mill next Monday. Long hours and steady

agreed Gu

dodge continued hardship. He wished that he might, like the boy Edison, make opportunity, but that sounded more plausible in lectu

e to work and they often are the

greater if he hadn't worked," remarked Terry sente

y," sa

ay that. We'll charge y

r glad I'm poor," said Bill, "and I would rather make a thous

could get," Terry offered,

nd it will be interesting to know what you

as the son of wealth, but not in the least snobbish. The

n unfair reference to Edison, began to wax

s he has if he hadn't had the hard knocks that a poor fellow

ou mind him!

rd of electricity and an overmastering desire to emulate the great inventor. The girl sat down on the grassy bank, pulled Cora down beside her

. "Why, when he was eleven years old he had r

quarter of it, I r

on 'most every subject; mostly about science and chemistry and engineering and mechanics, but a lot also on law and even moral philosophy and what you call it? oh-ethics-and all that sort of thing. He had to read to find out things; there seemed to

, in ten volumes. If he got outside of all

Gibbon's Decline and Fall

at stopped him

ts of education he can learn more by studying in his own way and experimenting than by just learning by rote and rule. Maybe he's not altogether right about that, for education is mighty fine and I'd like to go to a technical sch

shed a great deal," the us

very modest about it,"

ho does really big things is n

. How about Napol

government. He had brains, of course, but he didn't put them to much real use,

ou can't say

War and fighting and being a king,-that's nothing but selfishness! Some day people will build the largest monuments to folks who have done big things for humanity,-no

your fists, you wouldn't talk

p if scrapping has to be done, but it shouldn't ever have to be done,-betwee

conti

about five, got back to supper at nine, or later, and maybe that wasn't some day! But he

pretty hard for th

reason to say that successful genius is one per cent.

e been a whole lot more than fifty per cent, inspiration at work to do what he has done.

any blowing when you'

ion turned in the opposite direction toward the less opulent section of the town. There were chores to do at home and Gus often lent a hand to help his father who was