"
"Well, now, that's wonderful, strannger, and I should like to see how
you would do it."
"You can't do nothing, no how, friend, unless you begin at the
beginning. You'll have to begin when you're jest a mere boy, and set
about getting your edication as I got mine. There's no two ways about
it. It won't come to you; you must go to it. When you're put out into
the wide world, and have no company and no acquaintance, why, what are
you to do? Suppose, now, when your wagon mired down, I had not come to
your help, and cut out your wood, and put in the spoke, wouldn't you
have had to do it yourself?"
"Yes--to be sure; but then I couldn't have done it in a day. I an't
handy at these things."
"Well, that was jest the way with me when I was a boy. I had nobody to
help me out of the mud--nobody to splice my spokes, or assist me any
how, and so I larned to do it myself. And now, would you think it, I'm
sometimes glad of a little turn-over, or an accident, jest that I may
keep my hand in and not forget to be able to help myself or my
neighbors.
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