"I signed an agreement to teach the village school in Walden.

It's a brick building with a janitor to sweep and watch fires, only a few blocks to walk, and it pays twenty dollars a month more than the home school where you can wade snow three miles, build your own fires, and freeze all day in a little frame building at that.

I teach the school I have taken." "And throw our school out of a teacher?
Father could be sued, and probably will be," said Adam.

"And throw the housework Nancy Ellen expected you to do on her," said Agatha, at the same time.
"I see," said Kate.

"Well, if he is sued, he will have to settle.