But this idea has little chance of success as long as cranberry picking continues to be our leading industry.

So many of the children help out the family means by picking cranberries in the fall that school, until the picking season was over, would be slimly attended.
The last week in September found us all discussing the coming of the new downstairs teacher, Miss Phoebe Dawes.

Since it was definitely settled that she was to come, the opposition had died down and was less openly expressed; but it was there, all the same, beneath the surface.
Congressman Atkins had accepted the surprising defiance of his wish with calm dignity and the philosophy of the truly great who are not troubled by trifles.

His lieutenant, Tad Simpson, quoted him as saying that, of course, the will of the school committee was paramount, and he, as all good citizens should, bowed to their verdict.

"Far be it from me," so the great man proclaimed, "to desire that my opinion should carry more weight than that of the humblest of my friends and neighbors.