"Seth Warner delivered a mighty blow that helped to form this Union, and although I don't know much except to teach school I'm going to put in a little one to help save it.

X equalled the occasion, y equalled my willingness to meet it, and x plus y have brought me here." Dick told who he and Whitley were, and he felt at once that he and this long and mathematical Vermont lad were going to be friends.

Whitley also continued to look upon Warner with much favor.
"I respect anybody who can talk in mathematics as you do," he said.

"Now with me I never know what x equals an' I never know what y equals, so if I was to get x an' y together they might land me about ten thousand miles from where I wanted to be.

But a fellow can bend too much over books.